Re: on Perl

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:00:16 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

On 16/04/2024 12:58, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

It has also been used since circa 1999 as the embedded language of
the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
being replaced with Lua now.
 

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People who have used Forth a lot tend to be very enthusiastic about it,

Tbh most people who use a language a lot tend to promote it over others they
don't know. Ask any Python, C++, Java, C# dev what the best language is and
90% of the time they'll say the language they use. For Rust probably 99.99%
but that seems to be becoming more of a cult than a language.