Prediction: someone will make a reverse polish notation skill for interacting with claude claiming all sorts of things, like caveman, turn into another markdown as a service company, and make the news.
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It's archaic, powerful, expressive, compact. I'd describe it as an interactive macro-assembler on steroids. What's not to like?
But it's different. Certainly not for everyone (imho that makes it even more interesting). So yeah, shouldn't hurt the HN audience to pop by now & then.
I think there are phases where it becomes more popular, if some discussion topically references FORTH, or Lisp, you know that within a few hours other people will read them and make submissions on the same theme.
It's nice.
As for me I'll almost blindly vote up anything that references FORTH because I love implementing it. I don't use it. Few people do these days, but writing toy implementations is satisfying, for sure.
(I do use Lisp, and within the past month posted my own lisp compiler here. A few votes and a brief bit of commentary which is about all it deserved. But I like seeing other people's approaches and I suspect that's why it got the minimal attention it did.)
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 32.0 ms ] thread{honk} ps love if.
You never heard a lot of honks, come to think of it.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins
But it's different. Certainly not for everyone (imho that makes it even more interesting). So yeah, shouldn't hurt the HN audience to pop by now & then.
It's nice.
As for me I'll almost blindly vote up anything that references FORTH because I love implementing it. I don't use it. Few people do these days, but writing toy implementations is satisfying, for sure.
(I do use Lisp, and within the past month posted my own lisp compiler here. A few votes and a brief bit of commentary which is about all it deserved. But I like seeing other people's approaches and I suspect that's why it got the minimal attention it did.)
IT DOES NOT NEED TO BR ALL IN ONE LINE
Most commercial forth source code is totally readable and maintainable:
comments, newlines, macros, high level commands etc
It's a total myth that its 'write only'. The same nonsense is spreaded by some nerds who actaully never wrote a single program in it.
ps. same goes to COBOL. 99% of fud by guys who never even wrote a simple program in it.
https://technicpack.fandom.com/wiki/Forth_language
I built a massive mining platform that repeated a series of about 200 movements to vacuum up blocks, and used that computer block to orchestrate it.
Must admit that I got a bit scared of programming until I tried again in university.
they do some releases, they have a somewhat big project of rewriting vm in zig.