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Re:Forth?? by jhbadger on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:06PM (#46920597)
Yep, given that implementing Forth is so easy (easier even than implementing Lisp) pretty soon nearly every Forth programmer decides to take their turn doing it themselves.
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Re:Forth?? by absynth on Friday February 06, 2026 @09:32PM (#46920754)
Which reminds me that its time to dust off my old FORTH and make a proper calculator out of it.
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Re:Forth?? by stevekemp on Saturday February 07, 2026 @02:06AM (#46921921)
I suspect, for many, that implementing a forth is more interesting than using a forth.

Once you start writing really complex programs the system gets painful and hard. But trivial things are easy, and the consistency is so appealing.

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Re:Forth?? by pjmlp on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:25AM (#46922252)
It is the bootstrap that makes it interesting.

Creating the required primitives in Assembly, and then the remaining userspace out from them.

Afterwards it is programming like most languages.

I have done it with Lisps though.

Also on 8 bit home computers it provided the feeling to be coding close to Assembly while being close enough to BASIC as high level language.

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