2024-07-28 00:40:09 <rendar      > today i explained to a friend of mine what is Forth and how it works, he said: what? really? it must be a hell to debug! -- what you would have replied to him?
2024-07-28 00:42:31 <darkling    > It's no worse in that respect that anything else of its vintage. :)
2024-07-28 00:44:07 <darkling    > Although since I started trying to write code in Forth for the first time, a few weeks ago, I've had more segfaults than I've had in the preceding decade. :)
2024-07-28 00:44:41 <zelgomer    > "yes it is"
2024-07-28 00:46:35 <darkling    > "It seems so much better once you've tried assembly language."
2024-07-28 01:31:36 <zelgomer    > linked here in case anyone is interested in my ramblings about an idea i had today that i think may help some of my problems i've been having with forth: http://uncensored.citadel.org/readfwd?go=Programming?start_reading_at=2099482221#2099482221
2024-07-28 01:32:24 <zelgomer    > regards working with composite structures in forth and using them as stack frames for reentrancy and profit
2024-07-28 01:41:06 <darkling    > It's far too late in the day here to read that now, but it looks interesting. I'll have a peruse tomorrow.
2024-07-28 01:44:43 <darkling    > (Particularly since I've just written a whole load of linear algebra).