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https://technicpack.fandom.com/wiki/Forth_language
I built a massive mining platform that repeated a series of about 200 movements to vacuum up blocks, and used that computer block to orchestrate it.
Must admit that I got a bit scared of programming until I tried again in university.
I 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.
FYI: 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.
My first ever programming experience was a Minecraft computer running Forth https://technicpack.fandom.com/wiki/Forth_language I built a massive mining platform that repeated a series of about 200 movements to vacuum up blocks, and used that computer block to orchestrate it. Must admit that I got a bit scared of programming until I tried again in university.
Saw the same joke with Postscript many years ago.
is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?
But it's different. Certainly not for everyone (imho that makes it even more interesting). So yeah, shouldn't hurt the HN audience to pop by now & then.
is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?
It's nice.
As for me I'll almost blindly vote up anything that references FORTH because I love implementing it. I don't use it. Few people do these days, but writing toy implementations is satisfying, for sure.
(I do use Lisp, and within the past month posted my own lisp compiler here. A few votes and a brief bit of commentary which is about all it deserved. But I like seeing other people's approaches and I suspect that's why it got the minimal attention it did.)