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Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi

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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.

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Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-16 00:02 +0000
  Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-16 01:41 +0000
    Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2025-12-16 07:39 -0700
      Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-16 15:57 +0000
      Re: polyglot programming, Recent history of vi Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-17 07:13 +0000

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