More Thoughts On A JVM-Based Forth

This post is the continuation of the ideas discussed earlier in my previous post Thoughts On JVM-based Forth Implementation (please read it if you haven't done so yet), in which a general execution model and an overall stack design was introduced. However, three major topics were either very shallowly discussed or were left untouched. They shall be covered in this post... (read the full post on my website)

Syntax Intuitiveness aka IQ Test

As a polyglot I have coded with dozens of languages, ranging from Lisp and Forth to ML and Java and even Ruby (yes, I confess!). I have seen many programming constructs and syntaxes that hardly anything surprises me (beyond Javascript). Most of the times I can somehow understand a code that is written in a language that I do not know (like Haskell)... (read the full article on my website)

A Tale Of King and Evil or How I Made Peace With Ubuntu!

I used to be a fairly happy Ubuntu user from 2008 to 2011 (shh! I was a faithful FreeBSD and KDE 3 user before that). I could concentrate on my job and my desktop didn't get in my way. I didn't spend any of my time trying to configure things the sane way... (read the complete text on my website)