News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Starting Forth. Parent comment

Re:Starting Forth by jwilliams on Saturday January 24, 2009 @09:53PM (#448662)
Yeah - Forth and Forth-likes encourage an extremely modular, concise, expressive form of coding... When you add macros it gets some of that meta-programming feel that comes with Lisp.

All that said - I've never found it 100% natural, but (perhaps paradoxically) on the other hand I'm usually pleased with the results.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Starting Forth by vsingh on Sunday January 25, 2009 @01:34AM (#448814)
No kidding! Take a look at this code I wrote for adding a node onto a binary tree:

http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=addtobinarytreescre...

It is shown compared to the analogous code in C++ and Lisp.

My Factor version could probably be improved. In fact, I just now realized that I could have factored out the two final calls to <node> into a single call.

[ Parent | on HN ]