| ▲ | adastra22 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
Bitcoin’s scripting / smart contracting language is Forth. Were there anything in the crypto space is actually solving a problem is up to your own biases and prejudices. But if you pick one thing as actually trying to solve a real problem, payments over lightning is probably that. Lightning, at its core, is a state machine composed of Forth spend scripts. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tromp 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
While bitcoin script is a stack language, it doesn't really qualify as Forth as it doesn't allow you to define any new words. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kragen 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
No, Bitcoin Script is not Forth. Bitcoin Script is designed to guarantee termination, so no Turing-complete programming language was permitted. Like BPF, Bitcoin Script doesn't have subroutine definitions or backward jumps, so each opcode executes at most once. This is like saying JSON is C++. | |||||||||||||||||
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