[astrobe_]

Then find all the little half-truths in that post.

I think this part sums up the problem with Forth quite well:

> I defined the instruction set in a couple of hours. It mapped to Forth words as straightforwardly as possible [...] but it was harder than we thought. Presumably that was partly the result of not reading "Stack Computers: the new wave"

In other words: people too often confuse "simple" and "easy", think they don't need the experience of others, and then feel bad when they try and fail - and that post provides them with solace and a good excuses to quit when it happens with Forth. I don't mind them quitting Forth, but I'm more annoyed when they spread those half-baked "truths" about Forth.

[shaftoe444]

True, for the record I really like Forth and have had a go at implementing a forth like language interpreter (well maybe more than one go...). Getting it to be simple is not easy but it's really instructive to try.