TangentDelta at Discord has UF #forth running on the #m5 cardputer using #uxn

https://github.com/TangentDelta/cardputer-uxn

https://gitlab.com/b2495/uf

Niklaus Wirth and Chuck Moore had a lot more in common than I ever expected to discover.

I've known about both since the early 1980s (Wirth via using USCD and DEC20 Pascal and Moore via various #Forth implementations I used on the Commodore 64).
They seem to be worlds apart, but both:
1. Worked towards simplicity in its purest (but practical) forms
2. Designed their own hardware and programmed them bottom up in their own programming languages.
3. Took more and more away from their languages (stripping down to their bare essentials)

I'm currently hacking using Wirth's #oberon language (target compiling for 8-bit AVR) and the restricted language features of oberon is forcing me to think "differently" in similar ways that #forth does.

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#trivia
#commonlisp
#smalltalk
#ai
#techbooks
#programming
#forth
#pharo
#Wordle
#wordle1742

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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#trivia
#commonlisp
#smalltalk
#ai
#techbooks
#programming
#forth
#pharo
#Wordle
#wordle1742

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AI-Generated Books, Forth & Pharo, and Why I'm Back with Common Lisp

A notebook-style essay about stumbling upon AI-generated tech books (HiTeX Press, "Robert Johnson"), the realization that beautiful design doesn't equal working code, and the journey through Smalltalk chaos to the quiet stability of Common Lisp.

Includes thoughts on:
- The "end of the internet age"
- Why I avoid publicly traded companies
- AI in music, photography, and content moderation
- Why a REPL beats bouncing windows

Fake books → real lessons → building my own tools with CLOS and CLOG.

Read here in German:
https://mahamind7.blogspot.com/2026/03/angriff-der-ai-text-2.html

#CommonLisp #Smalltalk #AI #TechBooks #Programming #Forth #Pharo