Tom Schouten on Twitter: "The "linear" part of Forth is in explicit DUP and DROP operators. Being very vague, but C and #rustlang relate in a similar way maybe?" / Twitter

info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms <-- Where does #Forth fit into this chart of programming paradigms??

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Probably best fits "Imperative Programming". Procedures (words) + state (global variables, global data stack).

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In the company of C/Pascal ?! Perhaps so ... though I feel it should somehow be a bit more than just that.

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A subset of Forth can be made to look like a "linear, functional language", even if Forth is very close to ASM. Harder with C.

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The "linear" part of Forth is in explicit DUP and DROP operators. Being very vague, but C and #rustlang relate in a similar way maybe?

10:19 PM · Jul 13, 2015Twitter Web Client

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cf. pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Forth

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Thanks for the link! (Now I have to binge read everything by Henry Baker ... sigh ... there goes another year)

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