#DuskOS author vdupras’s #Forth #tutorial blog.
on 02026-05-20#DuskOS author vdupras’s thoughts on #Forth. “Forth is a fine and capable language, but I tend to agree with those who say that it tends to produce write-only programs. Most of the books on Forth are very old and compare Forth's elegance to Fortran’s or COBOL’s. I’m of the opinion that C is more expressive and generally produces more elegant and maintainable code. (...) I wrote this page, what, 4 years ago? I’m irked by me writing that C is more expressive than Forth. The thing is that generally, when you write Forth, you write your own language. So it’s as expressive as you make it. (...) Today, whenever I write C code, I find the language underpowered. Sure, you can, kind of, build your own language through macros, but seriously, textual-based macros? How blunt! Forth can take you to the next level, macro-wise.”
on 02026-05-20#DuskOS has an #Oberon port called "Duskberon"
on 02025-11-11#DuskOS home page: “Dusk OS is a 32-bit Forth and big brother to Collapse OS. Its primary purpose is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse, that is, when we can't produce modern computers anymore but that there’s still many modern computers around.”
on 02025-11-11Virgil Dupras’s #Lisp in #Forth for #DuskOS
on 02024-11-03