17 Mar
2020
17 Mar
'20
8:57 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:53:30AM -0400, C??g wrote:
Andy Kosela wrote:
Now I feel bad because I've never heard of it...
I've written a pile of Forth code and while some people love it, I never
warmed up to it.
You've seen it if you have used the Sun boot proms, that was all Forth.
As much as I don't care for Forth, man do I wish it had become the standard
for boot proms, it might not be my cup of tea but I could make it do what
I needed it to do. Can't say the same for UEFI, I disable that crap.
dc, along
with ed and I guess awk if we can put it here, is one of my
favorite Unix programs that I use daily. I don't even have a "normal"
calculator installed. It just smells like Unix.
There is something sexy about reverse Polish notation. I really do
encourage everyone reading this to try dc as their "desk calculator"
for some time.
So you probably also love Forth, a very underrated language...