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Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by procaryote on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:26AM (#45640596)
Powerful languages invites people to do needlessly complex things. Needlessly complex things are harder to understand. Harder to understand is worse.

Code that matters is usually read and extended many more times than it is written, over time by different people, so being straightforward beats most other things in practice

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Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself by jedwards1211 on Monday October 20, 2025 @09:29PM (#45651486)
Stack-based programming may be simple but it doesn’t seem like it would be easy to read and understand for large-scale programs at all.
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