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SpindleyQ

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    Comment #34489971

    Author here. I didn't have a decent Forth environment, I had a weird mess that I built myself from scratch. I ended up implementing a lot of "sophisticated" features - coroutines, …

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    Comment #34380392

    Blog author here, in 2020 I released a DOS game built completely in my own Forth system. Fully open source and hackable. https://spindleyq.itch.io/neut-tower The coolest applicatio…

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    Comment #14427299

    You still need to name concepts. Hungarian notation is actually as much about communication as it is about code. You'll get a lot of the benefits simply by being really disciplined…

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    Comment #14427127

    This is true. We used Hungarian Notation internally extensively. The most counterintuitive thing is that having a cryptic name for a concept can have advantages: it has a precise m…

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    Comment #14427039

    That's the DSL DevCon demo, video here: https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/DSL-DevCon-2009/Intentional... Best demo we ever gave while I was there, by a longshot.

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    Comment #14427024

    I worked at Intentsoft in its earlier days (2006-2011) and left just as it was really starting to seriously staff up. I look at the pictures of the office these days and it's so su…