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by i336_ 3775 days ago
> I'm in a minimalist passeist phase.

> ...one to one with that simple machine.

Recommendation: Forth (cf. colorForth)

Warning: Save snapshot of current mental state/perspective/worldview first, to guarantee sustained mental health :P
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agumonkey 3775 days ago
I regularly scan (ansi|gnu|color|*)Forth webpages. Thinking Forth is on my mental shelf for so long. ML and Lisps keep delaying reading it.
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i336_ 3775 days ago
> I regularly scan (ansi|gnu|color|)Forth webpages.

I occasionally do too :P

> Thinking Forth is on my mental shelf for so long. ML and Lisps keep delaying reading it.

I know the feeling... but I'm still at the "Lisp looks like parenthetical line noise, and what even is* ML?" stage, so I haven't yet tackled those.

Forth, to me, seems to be bring out the "mechanicalness" of the computer, in a weird sort of way. Of course it's just another programming language, but the philosophy and mentality behind it seems to lean in that direction. I like it for that, and its minimalism. :D

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agumonkey 3775 days ago
I love lisp and ml to bits, it's more that there's a whole cosmos to learn from there (type systems, macros, logic resolution, you name it).

I kinda understand the mechanicalness of Forth, if you mean that there's only a few principles and that even 'syntax' is built on that. The kind of less is more that frees your mind

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