alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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.
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.