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by masklinn 1306 days ago
Sectorforth and sectorlisp are interesting studies in minimalism. One of the goals of sectorforth’s author was to know whether

> if you have an interactive terminal, a dictionary, and the colon compiler, can you really build everything else based on just eight primitives?

> Turns out the answer is yes

The eight primitives come from an old usenet thread: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/NS2icrCj1jQ