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Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Forth is the ultimate blue-collar practical language, eschewing
>>highfalutin theories in favour of what it takes to get real work
>>done.
> 
> There is quite a bit of pragmatism around, but also quite a bit of
> dogmatism (especially based on Chuck Moore sayings, but I consider
> word-counting which gave us "gems" like F~ to also be in that camp),

Umm, what?  To what does this refer?

> and then there are opinions without any rationale ("I don't like
> ...").

That's just because people are people: there will always be someone
who doesn't like some code style, and there may well be good reasons
for that.  Usually, I would have thought, because people get used to
working in a particular way, and that way works well in the domains in
which they work.

A lot may "merely" be simple aesthetics, sure; I don't want to get
dragged into claiming anything stronger than my original statement.

> And some may see an organizing principle where others see a
> highfalutin theory.

Quite so.

Andrew.