[Noisebridge-discuss] Forth programming?

[Nate Lawson]

jim wrote:
>    what's the advantage forth has over C or 
> assembler? is it sufficiently compelling to 
> justify the learning curve? 
>    curious, not challenging. 
> 

Higher-level than both assembly and C and simpler. Wikipedia says:

###
Forth is a structured, imperative, stack-based, computer programming
language and programming environment.

A procedural, stack-oriented and reflective programming language without
type checking, Forth features both interactive execution of commands
(making it suitable as a shell for systems that lack a more formal
operating system) and the ability to compile sequences of commands for
later execution. Some Forth implementations (usually early versions or
those written to be extremely portable) compile threaded code, but many
implementations today generate optimized machine code like other
language compilers.
###

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)

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Nate