[COFF] [TUHS] Re: forth on early unix

[Ori Kuttner via COFF]

FORTH is a Write Only Language, you write it and can't even read it
yourself :-)
I used to like FORTH, did some PostScript and now I just hate it.

-- 
Ori Kuttner CEO Helicon Books
http://www.heliconbooks.com





On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM Johan Helsingius via COFF <coff at tuhs.org>
wrote:

> On 22/09/2025 15:03, Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS wrote:
> > When was that?  And why did you give up?
>
> Early 1980's - gave up because just like C, forth is pretty
> byte-oriented, and the PDP-10 byte pointers (and half-words)
> were quite a hassle. In the end I just ran out of time and
> patience.
>
>         Julf
>
>
>