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Re: Chucks address



>
>Forth is only easy to use when you're scribbling
>down a small program (as for as I know). But even
>the programmer itself doesn't understand his own
>code anymore after a day let alone that others
>can understand it. I large proportion of writing serious
>code consists of rereading your own coding and
>code of others to check if it might possibly induce
>errors.

Pure prejudice.

I have written code in FORTH that a government inspector
who checks code in a number of languages said was the
most readable code he had seen in 2 years.