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--- sd:what_s_a_language [2026/04/18 06:37] – appledog
+++ sd:what_s_a_language [2026/04/18 07:10] (current) – appledog
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 | BASIC | POKE 49152, 10 |
 | Forth | 10 49152 POKE |
-| Lorth | POKE 49152 10 |
+| Lorth | POKE 49152, 10 |
 This is a pretty accurate statement. IN forth, you can write
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     : POKE ARG ARG SWAP C! ;
-    POKE 49152, 10       \ Now, this is valid Forth.
+    POKE 49152, 10       \ Now this is valid Forth.
 Lorthio lives!
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       AGAIN ;
-    POKE 49152,10        \ This is valid Forth.
+    : POKE SPLITARG SWAP C! ;
+    POKE 49152,10        \ Now this is valid Forth too.
 Lorthio will never stop laughing. And one day, if he works hard enough, he can make FORTH run BASIC.
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 //Do you hear me God? I am screaming from the top of the mountain! WHAT IS FORTH?//
-<blockquote>>There is an idea of a programming language, out there, somewhere. Like a Godzilla. It hasn't come out of the water yet. It has come to punish us for our sins, of poorly used technology. It till herald a new computer language. One with the simple elegance of Forth, the expressiveness and freedom of C, the straightforward organization of BASIC, the classes of C++, and most of all it will be an assembler, and will interoperate with Assembly; it will break the wall even Forth didn't want to break.
+<blockquote>There is an idea of a programming language, out there, somewhere. Like a Godzilla. It hasn't come out of the water yet. It has come to punish us for our sins, of poorly used technology. It will herald a new computer language. One with the simple elegance of Forth, the expressiveness and freedom of C, the straightforward organization of BASIC, the classes of C++, and most of all it will be an assembler, and a compiler, and an interpreter. It will do what even Forth can't do -- or doesn't want to do. Either way.
 //"I have seen it..."// --Emperor Palpatine.