Building Forge: A Forth-inspired stack-based language for generating HTML websites
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Summary
The article describes the creation of "Forge," a Forth-inspired stack-based programming language designed for writing HTML websites. The author explains the motivation behind building a concatenative, stack-oriented language that allows developers to define words (functions) that emit HTML tags, making website generation feel like programming in Forth. The article includes code examples showing how to define HTML elements and use microformats with this approach.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI don't remember where the idea came from, but I decided that it would be cool if I could write websites using a stack-based language.
So I wrote Forge.
I quickly built a library of word definitions that let me easily add microformats to the HTML
" emit . "
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