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On Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:19:02 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

I still have a copy of Leo Brodie's _Starting Forth_. I got it
running on my CP/M box and fiddled with it for a while. I never got
any real-world application going, but I did manage to write a Sieve
of Eratosthenes.

One time, I was looking for Forth-related projects on GitHub. I found lots
of Forth implementations, but hardly anybody was using it to write actual applications.

My feeling is, while both Forth and PostScript, as stack-based languages, belong in a museum these days, PostScript still has some interesting ideas worth resurrecting (homoiconicity, for one). Forth does not.
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:02:54 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:19:02 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

I still have a copy of Leo Brodie's _Starting Forth_. I got it running
on my CP/M box and fiddled with it for a while. I never got any
real-world application going, but I did manage to write a Sieve of
Eratosthenes.

One time, I was looking for Forth-related projects on GitHub. I found
lots of Forth implementations, but hardly anybody was using it to write actual applications.

https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-apps/

You can create domain specific, almost natural language interfaces with
Forth.

https://www.hackster.io/news/mecrisp-stellaris-port-brings-the-forth- programming-language-to-the-raspberry-pi-pico-rp2040-4c8e7077ae64

The video isn't very inspiring but it does open possibilities. It was
always too idiosyncratic to take the world by storm but it does have its place.
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

My feeling is, while both Forth and PostScript, as stack-based languages, belong in a museum these days, PostScript still has some interesting ideas worth resurrecting (homoiconicity, for one). Forth does not.

Are you aware of

https://factorcode.org/

?

I found that very interesting, to the point of mind-bending.

Axel
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:11:52 +0100, Axel Reichert wrote:

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

My feeling is, while both Forth and PostScript, as stack-based
languages, belong in a museum these days, PostScript still has some
interesting ideas worth resurrecting (homoiconicity, for one).
Forth does not.

Are you aware of

https://factorcode.org/

?

I found that very interesting, to the point of mind-bending.

At an initial look, it seems a bit more Forth-like than
PostScript-like. There is still that concept of “compile-time” versus “run-time” interpretation of words, which is a distinction made in
Forth but not PostScript.

I see it has both lexical binding and continuations.

Here <https://bitbucket.org/ldo17/gxscript/> is my particular
experiment along these lines. This one is very definitely
PostScript-like.
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:37:23 +0000, David Wade wrote:

For Financial calculations COBOL is, I believe more capable than
FORTRAN. You have control over the precision. It will perform fixed
decimal arithmetic, it has a an "on size error" clause to detect under
and over flow.

By those criteria, Python is even more capable.

<https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html>
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