Forth

beardyw 161 points 31 comments July 27, 2026
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ajhenrydev

Can someone explain for me?

lhakedal

Saw the same joke with Postscript many years ago.

dchest

FORTH LOVE? IF HONK THEN

dwheeler

That beautiful is.

hmokiguess

Prediction: someone will make a reverse polish notation skill for interacting with claude claiming all sorts of things, like caveman, turn into another markdown as a service company, and make the news.

perpil

I first thought this was some spin on May the fourth be with you. As in how Yoda might say it.

jihadjihad

Slightly OT, but nothing can beat DonHopkins’s “About” section here on HN [0]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins

mikewarot

I never noticed the disclaimer at the bottom until today xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing. Also, the font chosen is all caps

joshu

is it me or is forth coming up a lot lately? or am i just having a plate-o-shrimp situation?

kentbrew

My dad proudly flew one that said FORTH <3 IF HONK THEN. Yes, people did honk.

add2

Iがforthをloveする

iberator

FYI: Forth can be very readable! IT DOES NOT NEED TO BR ALL IN ONE LINE Most commercial forth source code is totally readable and maintainable: comments, newlines, macros, high level commands etc It's a total myth that its 'write only'. The same nonsense is spreaded by some nerds who actaully never wrote a single program in it. ps. same goes to COBOL. 99% of fud by guys who never even wrote a simple program in it.

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