2023-04-18 04:39:36 <veltas      > DKordic: It's funny you say WordSalad because that's a favourite phrase of mine
2023-04-18 04:41:46 <veltas      > Ooops I'm playing with blocks again
2023-04-18 04:41:59 <veltas      > And me 2 months ago "Ooops I'm playing with Forth again"
2023-04-18 04:42:01 <veltas      > Can't keep awya
2023-04-18 04:42:17 <veltas      > crc: Blocks are pulling me in again
2023-04-18 07:03:46 <crc         > I have grown to enjoy using a block-based system
2023-04-18 07:29:25 <drakonis    > binaries are a funky way to say blocks :v
2023-04-18 07:29:39 <drakonis    > or heap images even
2023-04-18 07:32:53 <drakonis    > forth as a scripting language seems oddly alluring
2023-04-18 08:02:07 <veltas      > Everything about Forth is odd and alluring
2023-04-18 08:07:05 <crc         > drakonis: I do a lot of scripting on my systems with forth; it's served me very well
2023-04-18 08:09:27 <drakonis    > that's good to hear
2023-04-18 08:09:58 <drakonis    > any samples?
2023-04-18 08:31:21 <crc         > a couple:
2023-04-18 08:31:26 <crc         > http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/nga/file?name=example/amalgamate.retro&ci=tip
2023-04-18 08:31:26 <crc         > http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/nga/file?name=example/publish-examples.retro&ci=tip
2023-04-18 08:31:27 <crc         > http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/nga/file?name=example/archive.retro&ci=tip
2023-04-18 08:33:59 <crc         > http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/nga/file?name=tools/generate-epub.retro&ci=tip
2023-04-18 08:43:33 <drakonis    > ah, excellent.
2023-04-18 08:43:56 <drakonis    > thank you very much
2023-04-18 10:09:25 <veltas      > Yes, excellent indeed
2023-04-18 10:52:07 <DKordic     > ""Marry Had a Little Lambda: Implementing a Minimal Lisp for Assisting with Education"" ( https://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/reports/HonsReps/2016/hons_1604.pdf ) is interesting...  AIM-453, LiSP.
2023-04-18 10:52:19 <DKordic     > ``If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.  '' -- Kurt Lewin
2023-04-18 10:53:08 <thrig       > IT is a dead end job, and instead you should ...
2023-04-18 10:54:06 <DKordic     > thrig: I am not following.
2023-04-18 10:57:07 <DKordic     > ""Implementing Onw's Own Forth System"" is said to be a Right of Passage.  Critics describe it as some kind of mental disorder...  IMHO it more accurate to say Refactoring to one's own liking, rather that Implememnting.
2023-04-18 11:00:46 <DKordic     > HowTo Cross-Compile for Android?!  Android is the new VT100?!
2023-04-18 11:01:05 <DKordic     > What am I missing?
2023-04-18 11:06:24 <DKordic     > ""Compiler"" is nothing more than a mystifycation of ""C Compiler""?!
2023-04-18 15:24:46 <KipIngram   > I actually agree with the "implementing one's own Forth" thing.  I suspect there are relatively few people who are seriously into Forth that haven't tried their hand at it.  In contrast to the tools for most languages, it's actually within reach without a trunkload of special skills.
2023-04-18 15:25:19 <KipIngram   > But getting comfortable factoring and evolving a personal "Forth style" is definitely a thing too.
2023-04-18 15:25:29 <KipIngram   > I think that takes longer than implementing a system, though.
2023-04-18 16:12:56 <Zarutian_iPad> KipIngram: yebb, for instance I ported eForth to the DCPU-16 way back then
2023-04-18 16:13:44 <Zarutian_iPad> and I read the books plus jonesForth