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From: | mhx |
Subject: | Re: [gforth] whatever happened with Forth |
Date: | Fri, 06 Sep 2019 22:34:59 +0200 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.2.4 |
On 2019-09-06 14:42, address@hidden 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, andall the different Forth companies were all going out of business.I love Forth, it seems like a perfect language. Not that easy to hook it up toall the Microsoft stack perhaps, but still wonderful once you do. Is it just that the world has moved on?
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.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 :-)
-marcel
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