[TUHS] Question about BSD disklabel history

Alec Muffett alec.muffett at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 09:41:44 AEST 2024


On Sun, 31 Dec 2023, 23:25 Larry McVoy, <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I get it, Forth is like some weird lisp
> and the lisp people love lisp.
>

HERESY! Forth is a RPN stack language.

It's closer to Java bytecode in a whole bunch of ways, but its lineage
comes squarely out of embedded systems like radio telescope control. It's a
solid choice.

Funny I was only posting about it earlier today in respective of the recent
iPhone privilege escalation / exploit:

https://alecmuffett.com/article/108789

...which links to some Forth examples.

-a
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