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		jcr on July 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starting Forth "Starting Forth" is recommended reading, and so is "Thinking Forth" which was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842557

dmytrish on July 9, 2015 [–]

I tried reading "Thinking Forth", but never got why it is praised so much. Looks like a bunch of war stories from 80s from veterans who discovered some basics of encapsulation in need to handle Forth programs complexity.

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