james is here
psfI fell into a LLM rabbit hole for a few months. I am now out of that hole and hacking on #forth code again. My brain is shocked by how slowly I am moving. And yet, I feel whole again.
marocddotI've spent over 40 years chasing programming elegance and beauty. I realized around 20 years ago that the "industry" (and most tech people) don't care. LLM (and coding agents) have put the nail in that coffin.
I wonder, as I stumble into my 60s, if I can just start over. Go super simple. Work with my hands and head. Maybe a little #forth here and there on an #8051 or #AVR with no toolset dependencies, no networking dependencies, no graphics dependencies...
I wonder, as I stumble into my 60s, if I can just start over. Go super simple. Work with my hands and head. Maybe a little #forth here and there on an #8051 or #AVR with no toolset dependencies, no networking dependencies, no graphics dependencies...
tthThe today #UselessGraphic have only two colors, but is astoundingly regular. May the #Forth be with you.
Paolo Fabio Zaino ☮️🌍💻🎸🎮☕️🍩🍕#RISC_OS folks May the 4th be with you! Announcing a new Forth Compiler coming to RISC OS for this autumn (will be unveiled at the London Show this October, together with many other things). The cool bits are in the thread below 👇
#Forth #Fth #Compiler #Bytecode #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment
Martin's Pipe DreamsMay the Forth be with you!
Today is a great day to honor Charles Moore and his life's work.
Lets make some words about it and stack them. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #4th #Forth
Today is a great day to honor Charles Moore and his life's work.
Lets make some words about it and stack them. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #4th #Forth
WordofTheHour#forth : out, as from a state of concealment, retirement, confinement, nondevelopment, or the like
- French: avant
- Italian: avanti
- Portuguese: adiante
- Spanish: en frente
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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
Marce CollReading Thinking #Forth I find myself with a very familiar feeling to how I've been understanding software development for many years unrelated to Forth. I think even if forth doesn't interest you that book has a great philosophy of software development
Wintermute_BBSUsing the #Zesarux emulator in #JupiterACE #emulation mode and defining some high-level words to handle strings ...
I can see why this machine, in hindsight, has probably been one of the best ways to learn #Forth in its day as it comes with just enough words in its dictionary to get you going. It's a very compact vocabulary:
No ACCEPT, no MOVE and no 2DUP or even HEX - you need them, you write them yourself.
But this is what sharpens your skills and gives you a very good understanding of the bottom-up method.
Boy, I love this machine and its compatible remake, the #Minstrel4th
grz0zrgAdded short form syntax (shift is now optional) and ADR pseudo instruction (at last) to my #arm #forth assembler, mostly convenience stuff to avoid verbosity / manual compute of PC relative address, also changed labels word to -> and <- (--> for ADR labels), ADR implementation use a single pass back-patching algorithm that build a linked list until --> word is hit (will resolve each ADR), could be done more generically as well (for branch) but will skip it for now. Time to code some RO stuff !
