Re: whatever happened with Forth

Carpe diem.

WebAssembly engine in forth

On 9/6/19 1:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On 2019-09-06 14:42, [email protected] wrote:
>> Why has Forth disappeared so completely? I guess I really mean, why 
>> did it
>> lose popularity.  I came along just as Forth Dimensions was 
>> disappearing, and
>> all the different Forth companies were all going out of business.
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>> I love Forth, it seems like a perfect language. Not that easy to hook 
>> it up to
>> all the Microsoft stack perhaps, but still wonderful once you do.
>>
>> Is it just that the world has moved on?
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> In my opinion there has been no fundamental change. E.g., over the years,
> the sales numbers of iForth haven't really changed, and I see myself
> and others use Forth more and more for truly unbelievable stuff.
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> What has changed is the disappearance of high-quality / highly 
> interesting
> magazines like FD. We all know what has come in their place. It will take
> another decade (and another generation) to rebalance quality and 
> quantity.
> We did lose a few Forth generations to the smart-phone and social 
> media :-)
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> -marcel
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