Wintermute_BBS@deadbeef Oh, that's a long story.
I read about #Forth in 1987 in a Commodore 64 magazine that included a homebrew Forth compiler written in BASIC.
It was slow and my 14 year old me was a little too young to understand the overall concept of the language. But I was fascinated by it and that stuck for decades (I even bought Leo Brodies book back then but never got beyond the first five chapters).
Fast-forward to 2022: after having fallen in love with the #rc2014 homebrew kit and having built several other #8bit replica systems since then, I learned about the #Mynor #My4th homebrew kit. It's a cpu-less 8 bit system (the CPU is made of discrete 74xx logic ICs) which features a Forth compiler instead of BASIC in its ROM.
I built it and then I *had* to get Forth into my brain to use it. And this time things fell into place. Having learned 8085 Assembler some 30 years ago may have helped.
I love Forth because it allows you to do rapid "function" prototyping interactively just like you would work with an interpreter language while it gives you the speed and low-level hardware access of assembler.
One of the rsults of my Forth efforts so far is the #TMSnake game for #rc2014 systems.
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