SpindleyQ

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   by SpindleyQ 4y ago

   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, cooperative multitasking, an interactive debu
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   by SpindleyQ 4y ago

   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 application of the Forth philosophy in that project w
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   by SpindleyQ 9y ago

   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 about being consistent and precise with how you refer
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   by SpindleyQ 9y ago

   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 meaning, and if you don't know what it is, you can'
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   by SpindleyQ 9y ago

   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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   by SpindleyQ 9y ago

   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 surreal to me to see the absurd growth of what had stayed