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Although I haven't used Forth much since the time I implemented it on the Atari ST and used it for a commercial product, I still like to think of myself as a Forth person. It continues to influence aspects of my programming style, and can be useful to have known well in surprising circumstances; for example, I once solved a thorny problem in some rather complex XSLT by adapting a technique that's quite normal in Forth, but would be considered downright weird in many other languages. So yes, we are different :-)


> I once solved a thorny problem in some rather complex XSLT by adapting a technique that's quite normal in Forth, but would be considered downright weird in many other languages.

I'd be very curious to know what technique you used here.

I sort of stumbled on Forth recently, and while I'm not sure if I'll do anything with it, I like the philosophy behind it more than any other language I've yet found.


The articles you link to are all just misquoting the original blog post by Raymond Chen (who is not "MSDN", they just host the blog).


He does say "This riverside park doesn't figure much in Warsaw criminal lore" at the start of the second paragraph.


You're full of crap, and you know it.


You do realise Apple's site is listed as an example of a site with good contrast on contrastrebellion.com?



Have you tried looking at the top of the page? It even has a photo of him.


Well, the point was that I wasn't interested in who he was.


I just bookmarked this very article in delicious.


My 4 digit /. UID is also prime. Does that command a premium?


So is my 1 digit UID.


@cmdrtaco: not so sure about that one... ;)


Very nice, and just saved me a lot of messing about. Thank you!


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