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by iberator 1 day ago
FYI: Forth can be very readable!

IT DOES NOT NEED TO BR ALL IN ONE LINE

Most commercial forth source code is totally readable and maintainable:

comments, newlines, macros, high level commands etc

It's a total myth that its 'write only'. The same nonsense is spreaded by some nerds who actaully never wrote a single program in it.

ps. same goes to COBOL. 99% of fud by guys who never even wrote a simple program in it.

2 comments

Complaining about COBOL in 2026 feels like a joke, especially when doing AI coding and writing book sized instructions to be read by bots.
You can't have _any_ BR all in one line.