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		diffxx on Nov 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Forth Apologia (1988) A Forth programmer who bootstraps their own Forth probably isn't that excited about having a c compiler.

kragen on Nov 30, 2022 [–]

maybe i don't qualify as a forth programmer then

well, that's unfair, because https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth definitely doesn't qualify as a forth, it doesn't have immediate words

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