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Implementing Forth in Go and C

first ran into Forth about 20 years ago when reading a book about designing embedded hardware. The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note and moved on with my life.

The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note and moved on with my life. All that said, in my mind Forth is firmly in the "weird language" category; it's instructive to learn and to implement, but I wouldn't actually use it for anything real these days. Implementing Forth is a great self-improvement project for a coder; there's a pleasantly challenging hump of understanding to overcome, and you gain valuable insights into stack machines, interpretation vs. compilation and mixing these levels of abstraction in cool ways.

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