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Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth
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Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth
Andreas Wagner
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- Recommended by 2 people: 1 on Hacker News and 1 on Lobsters.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2021 to 2025.
- Presented by Samuel Falvo II
- Linked in the descriptionbitbucket kc5tja/unsuitable
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Programming languagesSystems programmingSimplicity and complexityMemory management
Samuel Falvo II demonstrates writing a text preprocessor and blog engine in Forth, showing how to use dictionary snapshots instead of mutation.
By Samuel Falvo II bitbucket.org/kc5tja/unsuitable/overviewWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a practical demonstration of Forth programming and its unique dictionary snapshotting model.
thomascountzon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Easy Forth (2015)”
This is a great resource and running in the browser is great for fast feedback. Thanks for sharing! I just started learning Forth a month or so ago, and I found this video from Andreas Wagner1 fun to watch. If anyone goes through OP's book and find yourself wanting to see Forth in action, I recommend the video. 1: link to this video
brandonbloomon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Dueling Rhetoric of Clojure and Haskell”
Clojure is following in the tradition of lisps that do this right. The important bit is the extra indirection on top-level names. I wrote more about it here a long time ago: link Also interesting is the other end of the spectrum: Forth. Instead of mutation, offers snapshots and restores of the “dictionary”. See this video: link to this video
pointfreeon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)”
"Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth" link to this video - Sam Falvo demonstrates writing a blog engine in Forth.