[COFF] Perl (was Re: forth on early unix)

Lars Brinkhoff via COFF coff at tuhs.org
Tue Sep 23 01:46:44 AEST 2025


Dan Cross wrote:
> Ori Kuttner wrote.
>> 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.
>
> I thought that was Perl? (*jumps for the exit*)

Y'all got nothing on TECO.

I agree to some extent I can barely read my own Forth code from a year
ago, but still, I think it looks pleasant somehow.  Well written Forth
looks like a haiku - dense and cryptic, but possibly profound.  Or maybe
it's just crap.


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