I know it's not cool to say this, esp. on merv, but I think this "best" claim is merely personal preference. I have programmed in Forth and I don't think it has any inherent advantages that are unique to it.
Suppose society collapses tomorrow, our scavenged hardware will have at least 32-bit processors and gigabytes of memory. It is quite hard to find commodity hardware with dramatically lower specs than that.
We can write and run compilers or interpreters for any language we dream up.
Our problem will be one of communication.
WimⓂ️ /
npub100…qz8zp
2025-03-29 10:15:55
in reply to nevent1q…e9qv
Author Public Key
npub1008ngy8zyxwnr92hjzxuaxkul986wd4l29ta42lrmslj9uv9345suqz8zpPublished at
2025-03-29 10:15:55Event JSON
{
"id": "1e7beeb61dbcce4836d4fe071b5dcb6fb937c3cfb4f11f1deffbc8b39b0fe6bc",
"pubkey": "7bcf3410e2219d319557908dce9adcf94fa736bf5157daabe3dc3f22f1858d69",
"created_at": 1743243355,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"70eef196f5d2e134ba0280c9081cb40401a97645d34633be7fb7b40ddc0224dc",
"",
"root",
"11c7275dd741db3ec7007f05abb72d50da0fe512f7c6cc43d0789b4d12454b7b"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://merveilles.town/@wim_v12e/114245196522521111",
"web"
],
[
"p",
"11c7275dd741db3ec7007f05abb72d50da0fe512f7c6cc43d0789b4d12454b7b"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://merveilles.town/users/wim_v12e/statuses/114245196522521111",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://merveilles.town/users/wim_v12e/statuses/114245196522521111",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "I know it's not cool to say this, esp. on merv, but I think this \"best\" claim is merely personal preference. I have programmed in Forth and I don't think it has any inherent advantages that are unique to it.\n\nSuppose society collapses tomorrow, our scavenged hardware will have at least 32-bit processors and gigabytes of memory. It is quite hard to find commodity hardware with dramatically lower specs than that.\n\nWe can write and run compilers or interpreters for any language we dream up. \n\nOur problem will be one of communication.",
"sig": "0ffaa2060af7bc129eff07305c4062f32219e6368167b998d7e1202170b73375db92a5618cdadeadcbf79f92c5523ed0e26797de5b5723a3a419010f26959e30"
}