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The FORTH code for Chipwits is released in the game's 40th anniversary

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210 points JoeDaDude | 2 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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tombert ◴[21 Nov 24 19:37 UTC] No.42207795[source]▶
Forth has been something I've wanted to learn for years now. It seems weird to me that for most stuff in old computers, you have the option of "assembly" if you want your program to be fast, and "BASIC" if you want your program to be slow, but Forth lingers along as the "medium speed" language, despite at least looking pretty high-level.
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1. mordechai9000 ◴[21 Nov 24 19:53 UTC] No.42207931[source]▶
I think writing a toy Forth interpreter is a good way to learn about the language. It's easy and I had a lot of fun with it. But it is so ridiculously easy, at least up to a certain point, some may find it too elementary, or too tempting to go beyond a toy implementation.
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2. int_19h ◴[21 Nov 24 21:25 UTC] No.42208822[source]▶
Even just reading through an existing implementation can be very enlightening. E.g. JonesForth (where like 90% of the assembly source is comments explaining everything in detail): https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...