alt Hacker NewsYep, 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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absynth • today at 2:32 AM
Which reminds me that its time to dust off my old FORTH and make a proper calculator out of it.
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.