Forth brain injections for free
June 22nd, 2008
Image via WikipediaForth is “a little” different than you everyday programming language. Basically it’s different on so many levels. If you ever wondered what it’s like, but didn’t have time or a reason to invest to get/learn/do-enought-to-get-the-feel it — now internets offer you a free ticket to get a taste of it.
Samuel from Falvotech made a video where he coded a HTML parser in gForth, he seems a very fluent Forth programmer and it’s a joy to watch him code (to me at least):
Click here for article and here for the video
I do some coding in Factor which is one of incarnations of Forth but it’s still different in many ways and was always interested how his raw-metal father Forth is. This video was super interesting to me. The core rules are very known to me as it’s the same as in Factor so I could easily follow it, I hope it will be approximately the same for you.
I hope you won’t focus only on “uh how low level is this” and “what crazy stuff is he doing with return stack?” (in few positions of the video) and so miss some things that are pure beauty of the concepts here (like what concatenation brings you). Well, your loss if you do..
Hehe, this is above AI, this is AT (Artificial Transcendence).. I just installed the new Zemanta plugin, I am listening to Iron Maiden while writing this article and mentioned it no-where in it and it proposed me picture of Iron Maiden (that you see upthere) in suggestions.
Well it’s even worse, this is future look-up and self inducing prophecy by the plug-in. I was listening to the iron maiden and not mentioning them, it proposed the pic to me, now I did mention them so the picture has a logical place to be in this article and global order is restored once again. I am impressed by the new version guys 
