selvor

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   by selvor 7mo ago

   When he told about that in the Fireside chat, I was really puzzled at first. I think Chuck was just being the eccentric guy he is was telling a cautionary tale for the shock effect, in a kind of dark humorous way. Also the guy is 88 years o
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   by selvor 7mo ago

   I like that the article mentions Manfred von Thun, his iteration over FORTH was a joy to use, spent many hours writing code with it. It's a breeze. It was the true mirror reflection of Lisp in FORTH, and helps one reap the benefits of
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   by selvor 2y ago

   > Anything that you say is missing can be added. For sure, it can be extended indefinitely. It's good that you made that clear. You can add a C compiler if you like (see Dusk OS) even, or a generic BNF parser generator (see Bradford
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   by selvor 2y ago

   It may look more high-level than something like C, but it is actually no more high level than a macro assembler with registers eliminated. As there's no syntax tree, essentially every word that is parsed from the input stream is replac