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Re: Teaching Kids Forth

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Post by exe34 » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

lebuffon wrote: post #69

exe34 wrote: post #53

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Aside from shooting yourself in the foot, I don't see anything you've shared that can't be done in python.

Of course not. I was merely expressing that Forth makes interactively very easy. And like all languages, it is impossible to evaluate them if you don't use them for some significant amount of time.

Python also makes "interactively" very easy!

Re: Teaching Kids Forth

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Post by pitchlatte » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 8:48 AM UTC

lioeters wrote: post #36

pitchlatte wrote: post #34

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that’s not even notation though, that’s a rubric for the order of operations.

The need to remember operator precedence is a consequence of the infix notation syntax.

i can’t imagine prefix or postfix being easier for most people to understand.

Re: Teaching Kids Forth

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Post by tkfoss » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #47

tkfoss wrote: post #44

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Python turtle with logo parser and 3D support https://github.com/tkfoss/pylogo3d/tree/main#pylogo3d

Are there physical turtles available? Good for kids to take home an actual plot from their classes.

Yes, either live using python/logo REPL, from a script or from generated svg. Thanks for motivation to wrap it up and publish that part as well