On 28/06/2018 18:16, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:31:50 GMT
> stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) wrote:
>
>> This is just proof by repeated assertion. What qualifies you to make
>> these assertions? I have run a Forth software shop since 1981, so on
>> a did/didn't basis, I've seen a lot of Forth code. As an embedded
>> systems rogrammer, I've seen a huge amount of bad C code and bad
>> code in a range of languages.
>
>  I am reminded by this of the rants about Perl being only fit for
> scripting and obfuscated hackery, whereas in fact it can be used to write
> well structured, intentional and highly readable code. I've not used Forth
> enough to know for sure but I would be surprised if the same weren't true
> for Forth. There are very few languages that force you to write code that's
> hard to read.
>

As you say, you have not used FORTH.

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