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by jihadjihad

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Slightly OT, but nothing can beat DonHopkins’s “About” section here on HN [0].
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins

by dchest

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FORTH LOVE? IF HONK THEN

by 7734128

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My first ever programming experience was a Minecraft computer running Forth
https://technicpack.fandom.com/wiki/Forth_language
I built a massive mining platform that repeated a series of about 200 movements to vacuum up blocks, and used that computer block to orchestrate it.
Must admit that I got a bit scared of programming until I tried again in university.

by mikewarot

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I never noticed the disclaimer at the bottom until today

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Also, the font chosen is all caps

by kentbrew

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My dad proudly flew one that said FORTH <3 IF HONK THEN. Yes, people did honk.

by hmokiguess

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Prediction: someone will make a reverse polish notation skill for interacting with claude claiming all sorts of things, like caveman, turn into another markdown as a service company, and make the news.

by ngvrnd

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Hey whatever happened to Factor? That was an amazingly professional offering in a weird and dusty corner of the programming languages.

by lhakedal

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Saw the same joke with Postscript many years ago.

by add2

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Iがforthをloveする

by joshu

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is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?

by ajhenrydev

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Can someone explain for me?

by perpil

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I first thought this was some spin on May the fourth be with you. As in how Yoda might say it.

by iberator

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FYI: Forth can be very readable!
IT DOES NOT NEED TO BR ALL IN ONE LINE
Most commercial forth source code is totally readable and maintainable:
comments, newlines, macros, high level commands etc
It's a total myth that its 'write only'. The same nonsense is spreaded by some nerds who actaully never wrote a single program in it.
ps. same goes to COBOL. 99% of fud by guys who never even wrote a simple program in it.

by dwheeler

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That beautiful is.