Forth, its history and the computer science ideas which form its foundations explained in a light and humorous style sprinkled with links to interesting resources on the web.

  • Phytolizer@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Forth is a neat little language. Writing a compiler for it is very easy, and yet it isn’t too terrible to write as a user. That is a tough balance to strike.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      1 year ago

      Emphasis on the “little”. You can get a working Forth environment into <5K. That’s why they used to use it to write BIOSen. I’m surprised you don’t hear more about it in embedded spaces today—seems like it would be ideal for that use case.