Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> writes:

"In particular you need to avoid writing code for situations that will
never arise in practice. You need to avoid writing code to handle a
general problem that you are never going to encounter. I don't need
to solve the general problem when I only have to solve these specific
cases." -- Chuck Moore

Fortunately, he did not practice what he (later) preached, or he would
not have implemented Forth, the solution to a very general problem.

- anton
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