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> It will be a bad language, and that's okay

This same advice could be applied to most hobbies. It doesn't have to be good, and it certainly doesn't have to make money. It just has to be fun and rewarding. If you learn something, even better.

> Go Forth, make something fun

*golfclap*



I also came across FORTH through hacker news. I ended up developing a compiler that can translate FORTH into C.

For the interested reader:

https://github.com/loscoala/goforth

It was a great experience and I can only recommend trying to develop a programming language yourself.


And here's my tutorial FORTH, based upon a thread from hacker news:

https://github.com/skx/foth

Forth is always appealing, whether literally, or in puns.


Very cool, I'll check it out. I've been meaning to give Go a spin.




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