2022-03-11 04:39:38 <joe9        > joe
2022-03-11 14:53:13 <vms14       > everyone of you has its own forth?
2022-03-11 15:02:57 <f-a         > no
2022-03-11 17:58:27 <vms14       > f-a :/
2022-03-11 18:02:17 <f-a         > why :\
2022-03-11 18:21:05 <vms14       > I was thinking on making my own when I saw all the differences between several forths
2022-03-11 18:22:48 <f-a         > making your own could teach you stuff
2022-03-11 18:23:06 <f-a         > or you could pick another one and live with it
2022-03-11 18:24:30 <vms14       > I was looking at retro yesterday
2022-03-11 18:24:42 <vms14       > somehow I liked it at first sight
2022-03-11 18:25:04 <vms14       > but tried to copypaste socket examples and it was doing nothing, yet it said ok
2022-03-11 18:25:21 <vms14       > then thought meh, I could roll my own xd
2022-03-11 18:25:40 <vms14       > I want a forth able to do some gui and networking stuff in netbsd
2022-03-11 18:26:38 <vms14       > all languages run into troubles when they want to use ffi in this system, same with gforth which was the option I thought I could use for
2022-03-11 18:28:03 <vms14       > also would be hard to find a forth with sql or stuff alike and I tend to write code in perl
2022-03-11 18:28:27 <vms14       > which makes me think in making a forth in perl (tried several times as exercise)
2022-03-11 18:29:12 <vms14       > won't end being a forth
2022-03-11 18:31:09 <vms14       > as for example I don't see the need to manage memory, would have a gc for free and the stack could use any scalar type, which means almost any perl type
2022-03-11 18:31:49 <vms14       > and regex :D
2022-03-11 18:32:15 <vms14       > looks interesting now that I think about
2022-03-11 18:33:06 <vms14       > and it's likely I'll add quote and a way to have lisp macros and lists
2022-03-11 18:38:13 <KipIngram   > vms14: DO IT.
2022-03-11 18:38:24 <KipIngram   > It's absolutely within reach.
2022-03-11 18:39:18 <KipIngram   > And the great part is that you then get to make it work *exactly* how you want it to work.
2022-03-11 18:39:35 <vms14       > yes, that's the main advantage I see from forth
2022-03-11 18:39:59 <vms14       > you'll roll your own language and  nothing suits better your needs than your own stuff
2022-03-11 18:40:12 <vms14       > I'll do
2022-03-11 18:40:23 <vms14       > dirtyforth I'll name it
2022-03-11 18:40:25 <vms14       > XD
2022-03-11 18:42:48 <MrMobius    > vms14, go for it! there are a lot more forths floating around than programs written in them which seems to imply that designing the forth is the fun part :)
2022-03-11 18:48:23 <vms14       > I did try some times, but it was more like a practice than a serious idea
2022-03-11 18:48:40 <vms14       > I think I'll try to do it a bit more seriously this time