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

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223 points JoeDaDude | 2 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.467s | source
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bastloing ◴[21 Nov 24 23:09 UTC] No.42209627[source]▶
Forth seems to be one of those write once languages like perl. Easy to start writing and building, but come back to the code in a year or so, no clue what it does.

But really fast and efficient.

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1. veltas ◴[22 Nov 24 12:46 UTC] No.42213377[source]▶
Anecdotally I find the opposite to be the case. I think Forth is hard to write but easy to read.
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2. codr7 ◴[22 Nov 24 19:33 UTC] No.42216717[source]▶
Makes sense, because to write it you have to understand everything, which means keeping code super well organized.