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by dewster 3159 days ago
It's called factoring with subroutines, and Forth hasn't cornered the market on anything by calling them words.
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protomyth 3158 days ago
No, but Forth provided one of the nicest, most immediate, and interactive environments to explore a problem. Instead of multiple files in a text editor, you build and test your app live and then dump it all to a text file. I have rarely had that experience with any other language except Smalltalk. I understand some Lisp environments act that way, but Forth was available places Lisp and Smalltalk were not.
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dmux 3158 days ago
>you build and test your app live and then dump it all to a text file

The Tcl shell is really great for doing this. Since everything can be represented as a string-type, you're able to introspect your defined procedures and dump them to disk.

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dewster 3158 days ago
Developing on the target is just so last century. Now that programmers have developed the IDE you'll have to pull them from their cold dead hands.
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protomyth 3158 days ago
I don't think I've used any IDE (other than Smalltalk) that was vaguely in the class of using Forth for interactivity and building of programs from the bottom up.

Whats up with mocking everyone you reply to on this thread?

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