From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc
John Ames <
commodorejohn@gmail.com> writes:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:34:41 +0200
Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:
Really? It is a very small language and has almost no syntax.
I thought it was one of the easiest languages toe learn ib comparison
to C++ or Java.
*Syntactically* it's very simple, but explicit stack-orientation with reverse-Polish notation is a *very* different programming paradigm than practically everything else out there; even Lisp is closer to "normal,"
at least for functional-programming types.
That was my impression also, when I played around with "factor",
https://factorcode.org/
a modern take on Forth, some years back. Kind of opposite of Lisp: no parentheses, post-fix. I liked many of the ideas and concepts when
reading about them, but it was awfully difficult for a (historically imperatively minded) hobby programmer to wrap my head around them and
even get trivial exercises done. Fascinating, though.
Best regards
Axel
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