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Re: Forth programming style...

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
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Subject Re: Forth programming style...
Date 2015-08-01 13:21 +1000
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Mark Wills wrote:
> ...
> It's also utterly un-readble gibberish. I mean, lets face it, in the
> vast majority of languages, you can normally get an idea of what some
> piece of code is doing, even if you don't understand all of it.
>
> And people say Forth is write only! Pah!

As you would know :)

> Respect to WJ for being able to write it, I suppose, but it's not for
> me.

It's a programming language's *differences* from others that makes it
fascinating and worth the effort learning.  Take locals.  Any number of
languages use local variables.  How about a language that eliminates
them completely by design?  Amazing, right?  Can you imagine adding
local variables to such a language?  It's a terrible idea as it diminishes
what made that language different and worth the learning.

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