Exploring Forth Programming Language: A 20-Year Journey with Go and C Implementations
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Bogdanp
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Summary
The article describes the author's personal journey with the Forth programming language over two decades, from initial exposure in an embedded hardware book to recent implementation experiments in Go and C. It covers the author's evolving understanding of Forth's stack-based architecture, unique programming paradigm, and practical implementation challenges across different programming languages.
Key quotes
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having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note and moved on with my life
It always occupied a slot in the "weird language" category inside my brain
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