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Re: Top 3 implementations?

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Top 3 implementations?
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Date	2012-05-08 13:41 -0700
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Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:
> The last time I saw an article in a mainstream Linux magazine was when they
> did a series on "esoteric programming languages". Ohloh didn't even LIST
> Forth until a week or so ago and even now they can't detect the language
> properly.

I went to a Haskell conference a few weeks ago and gave an impromptu 5
minute talk about the Forth Haiku converter I wrote in Haskell a while
back (it was in response to a clf discussion about the Forth haikus).
As soon as I mentioned "Forth" a bunch of older folks in the audience
gave appreciative smiles.  I think the ideas of Forth have stayed
interesting even as the language's domain of practicality has become
pretty specialized.

I do think it is a pretty difficult language.  It has the attractive
characteristic of being simple enough that it's possible to understand
every detail of how it works, but the often less attractive
characteristic that you pretty much HAVE to understand all the details
in order to use it effectively.  Other languages are more like black
boxes, where behind-the-scenes machinery does more of the work without
the user having to know or care what is happening.

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