[d3nit]

From the title alone I tought it will be another FORTH interpreter implementation article, but I was happy to see someone actually using it for anything besides proving their interpreter with a Fibonacci calculation.

[macintux]

There's another front page article right now with someone using it in a very cool way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918824

[d3nit]

thanks, somehow I missed that.

[jhbadger]

Yep, given that implementing Forth is so easy (easier even than implementing Lisp) pretty soon nearly every Forth programmer decides to take their turn doing it themselves.

[stevekemp]

I suspect, for many, that implementing a forth is more interesting than using a forth.

Once you start writing really complex programs the system gets painful and hard. But trivial things are easy, and the consistency is so appealing.

[absynth]

Which reminds me that its time to dust off my old FORTH and make a proper calculator out of it.