"... Lisp is what you get if you expend the least amount of effort on syntax, semantics, and codegen ..." That sounds about right. The result is still beautiful.

@headinthebox lisp, scheme, smalltalk, (color)forth + greenarrays, k(db) … the anti-thesis to layers of layers of (not so great) abstractions, libraries, slop, … simplicity is evergreen though even in a world where code generation cost is going to zero arguably even more useful now

@__tosh @headinthebox Forth is such a wonderful language to implement, but it's not the most fun to use. But still: I think "Thinking Forth" is still worth a read for developers. It taught me to appreciate how much is achievable with so little language.

@angular2react @headinthebox thinking forth is great, agree I also find it clarifying if something is complex in forth it tends to be inherently complex there is no place to hide that said: I have little experience in it yet needs some re-wiring in my head much to learn :)

@__tosh @headinthebox I dabbled around with it as bored conscript and started writing a forth like language interpreter. That was fun! During Uni I did a class called "Stackbased languages" and my team mate signed us up for a coding competition.

@__tosh @headinthebox Harald rocked that. He invented our algorithmn and did most of the implementation. Since we had to do something in a stack based language, he implemented the algo in Forth, but embedded in a C++ app. IMHO; algo was very hard to understand as Forth code freiesmagazin.de/20110109-gewin…

@angular2react @headinthebox ty for the pointer, taking a look at the source