I first thought this was some spin on May the fourth be with you. As in how Yoda might say it.
My brain tells me Yoda speak would likely be: love Forth, I do.
But then he would also say: Forth is the path to the Light Side…
Forth
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Forth I assume uses reverse polish notation: arguments before the operator. 3 4 + for example, would return 7.
The stack is really a convenience that makes pipeline-driven programming possible in the language.
somewhat relatedly, shell pipelining is very amenable to being massaged into (non stack-based) concatenative programming
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#33FYI: Forth can be very readable!
IT DOES NOT NEED TO BR ALL IN ONE LINE
Most commercial forth source code is totally readable and maintainable:
comments, newlines, macros, high level commands etc
It's a total myth that its 'write only'. The same nonsense is spreaded by some nerds who actaully never wrote a single program in it.
ps. same goes to COBOL. 99% of fud by guys who never even wrote a simple program in it.
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#34is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?
The Forth (and Lisp) posts will continue until the entire HN population has been converted.
I am glad that this forum that has mostly been colonized by the ‘normies’ still manages to keep these two languages in the conversation, capturing curious passersby with their exotic allure. In every post you see new prey with the comments like ‘I keep reading about Lisp and I still don’t get why it’s popular. All I see is parentheses. Can anybody explain?’
I fear the day HN closes is the day those languages will die.
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#35is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?
The Forth (and Lisp) posts will continue until the entire HN population has been converted. I am glad that this forum that has mostly been colonized by the ‘normies’ still manages to keep these two languages in the conversation, capturing curious passersby with their exotic allure. In every post you see new prey with the comments like ‘I keep reading about Lisp and I still don’t get why it’s popular. All I see is par…
Nah, we will keep hoping around.
USENET, Slashdot, Reddit, HN, Lambda the ultimate,....
There will surely be a spot left for the refugees.
The biggest issue is when natural language programming would make all these paradigms irrelevant, a curiosity for computing history museums.
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#36FYI: Forth can be very readable! IT DOES NOT NEED TO BR ALL IN ONE LINE Most commercial forth source code is totally readable and maintainable: comments, newlines, macros, high level commands etc It's a total myth that its 'write only'. The same nonsense is spreaded by some nerds who actaully never wrote a single program in it. ps. same goes to COBOL. 99% of fud by guys who never even wrote a simple program in it.
Complaining about COBOL in 2026 feels like a joke, especially when doing AI coding and writing book sized instructions to be read by bots.
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#37Re: Forth
#38Iがforthをloveする
Forward Japanese Notation
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#39I never noticed the disclaimer at the bottom until today xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing. Also, the font chosen…
I would not be surprised if an easter egg exists on xkcd.com provided you satisfy these requirements.
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#40I never noticed the disclaimer at the bottom until today xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing. Also, the font chosen…