Re: [9front] Need help with configuring the Internet

["Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019, at 9:43 AM, vp@kvik.link wrote:
> 
> The papers in /sys/doc, the supplemental choice of documents
> on cat-v.org, the manual pages, the source code itself, and
> spending some time hanging out with and getting to know the
> community and its ways should, in no particular order, be
> enough to jeopardize your (prospective) computer-themed
> career.

Tell me about it!  I ended up in Forth, which is possibly even worse. ;)

Thinking Forth 1994 edition contains:
> A line from a typical Forth application might read:
>     20 ROTATE LEFT TURRET
> Few other languages would encourage you to concoct a subroutine called LEFT,
> merely as a modifier, or a subroutine called TURRET, merely to name part of
> the hardware.

There's a nice little quote in the last chapter:
> The idea of “human scale” is, I think, today’s seminal concept in software
> design. This isn’t specifically a Forth development; the great joy of UNIX,
> in its youth at least, was that you could read it (since it was written in C),
> understand it (since it was small), and modify it (since it was simple). Forth
> shares these virtues, although it’s designed to tackle a different sort of problem.

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