Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: 16 Dec 2025 01:41:16 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10h175s$2b64m$19@dont-email.me> <10h29pm$30833$1@dont-email.me> <10h2am5$2lt7$1@gal.iecc.com> <10hq7je$29cri$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BQmwNT+oIQ7Vf4GpKaGAsgg2U65mokUTQOx3MpYIKk2EFA2IRB Cancel-Lock: sha1:KTajt8bWguh7s6hG8yoMGAmMpsc= sha256:lSj0StpC01ns9GlgTr0509nqAkLtulCLhfOj0kJEmdE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79248 alt.folklore.computers:232580 comp.lang.misc:11682 On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:02:54 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:19:02 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> I still have a copy of Leo Brodie's _Starting Forth_. I got it running >> on my CP/M box and fiddled with it for a while. I never got any >> real-world application going, but I did manage to write a Sieve of >> Eratosthenes. > > One time, I was looking for Forth-related projects on GitHub. I found > lots of Forth implementations, but hardly anybody was using it to write > actual applications. https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-apps/ You can create domain specific, almost natural language interfaces with Forth. https://www.hackster.io/news/mecrisp-stellaris-port-brings-the-forth- programming-language-to-the-raspberry-pi-pico-rp2040-4c8e7077ae64 The video isn't very inspiring but it does open possibilities. It was always too idiosyncratic to take the world by storm but it does have its place.