On 17/04/2024 07:34, Andreas Eder wrote:
On Di 16 Apr 2024 at 14:00, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
On 16/04/2024 12:58, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
On 2024-04-16, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
Forth is alive and well, albeit not very common. It is used in embedded >>>> systems - it is almost certainly the smallest language and run-time
system where you can have a extendable high-level language, and runs
directly on even very small microcontrollers.
It has also been used since circa 1999 as the embedded language of
the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment. In the
end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
being replaced with Lua now.
People who have used Forth a lot tend to be very enthusiastic about it, but >> it has a long learning curve to get up to speed.
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.
It doesn't take long to learn the actual language - as you say, it's
small. It takes a long time and a lot of practice to get confident with
it, to learn the tricks you can do with it, to understand the idioms and
be confident in reading other people's code as well as writing your own.
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