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

[Larry McVoy via COFF]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 09:46:26AM +1000, Alexis via COFF wrote:
>    : myInterpreter
>      begin 32 word find dup if execute else number then again ;
> 
>  And here would be a compiler:
> 
>    : my-]
>      begin 32 word find dup if dup immediate? if execute else      compile
> then else compile-number then again ;

I say this as a guy who loved the reverse polish HP calculators, but my, oh
my, that reads as gibberish to me today.   Probably because I have an old
tired boomer brain.

Even when I wasn't tired, I drilled into my team "make code readable, you
read it way more than you write it".  I have never found forth to be 
readable.  

As Rob says, I survived Forth.  I agree that that would make a good nerd
tshirt but I also suspect very few people would get it.  Mitch would but
I think he wouldn't like it :)