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		benj111 on Feb 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shells are two things That's true I suppose, but is the the only issue with forth? Or perhaps it's that a stack is good for certain things, but not for everything? If your language just consisted of map() you'd soon run into its limits.

smcl on Feb 9, 2023 [–]

Yeah I think it’s one of the less-hard things about Forth. For what it’s worth I quite enjoyed fiddling with Forth, and went through a bit of a “stack computing” phase. I never made the connection with the the pipe operator tho

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