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Re:Forth – is it still relevant? by binary132 on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:17AM (#45865374)
You seem to be presuming here that wanting FORTH to be popular even crossed the minds of the 1201 FORTH developers in question. :')
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Re:Forth – is it still relevant? by tdeck on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:23AM (#45865413)
At least this author wrote the following:

> So, the question is, how to encourage today's world of C programmers to take a look at Forth. How do we convince them that Forth can be 10 times more productive?

So they are clearly interested in getting people to view FORTH as a productive choice.

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Re:Forth – is it still relevant? by binary132 on Sunday November 09, 2025 @08:41AM (#45865556)
I’ll amend my first comment to say 1200, then.
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