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by ttgurney 1441 days ago
Good thoughts, thanks. This mirrors my own experience. The whole thing did seem very approachable to me. Pretty sure we had to implement a FORTH in a programming languages course I took back in college as well, so I had that basic familiarity with it.

Actually writing FORTH programs, on the other hand, is for me a real brain-bender. It seems to require a very different kind of thinking than does programming in C (for example).

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> It seems to require a very different kind of thinking than does programming in C

That's the beauty of it. The more exposure you get to these kinds of different paradigms, the further you advance your craft. It all transitions to whatever you're working on and helps you better speak the fundamental computer language.