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user-inactivated · 4351 days ago · link · · parent · post: Follow up to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C"
Why forth?
briandmyers · 4351 days ago · link ·
I've only read a little about it but it seems very object oriented, and a bit like Lisp for hardware. A different approach but a big learning curve.
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briandmyers · 4351 days ago · link ·
Yes, exactly. As I said I only know a little about it, but it seems like you use Forth to design a language which matches (and controls) your machine. As you sometimes use Lisp to build other languages.
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briandmyers · 4351 days ago · link ·
Now that you mention it, I think I've gotten my wires cross about the object-orientation angle; I think i was thinking of Smalltalk. It's another language that I've also thought would be interesting to learn, sometime. I really don't know a lot about either of them, though.