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jll29 2 days ago

> Most of us have never written a real application in Forth, and we've never had the religious-conversion experience where Forth made it possible to write something we couldn't have written without Forth.

Perhaps someone will upload some Forth source code for a few larger systems e.g. "Fmacs", an Emacs-like editor written in mostly Forth with Forth instead of ELISP being the embedded language.

Then it would be interesting to compare speed and readability (important today and every day) as well as memory requirements in RAM and on disk etc. (not so important anymore, used to be very important in the past).

I had a look at the little Forth-based operating system's source code and of course couldn't comprehen much, which is obvious because looking at the code doesn't tell you, you need to imagine what's going on with the stack.