The ideas present - which are much more craftsmanlike than an academic paper - are easy to absorb by skimming, and they're still relevant even after 20 years of research/fashion trends in programming.
Plus Forth itself is, in a lot of ways, the living embodiment of the YAGNI principle, which can make it look uncomfortably-to-incomprehensibly spartan to outsiders.
Thanks for the recommendation. I had never heard of Forth, except as a buzzword, until I heard a local hacker give a short explanation of Factor, which is largely inspired by Forth:
I played with the demo a bit. It's very interesting. Even in the first few minutes you can sense the potential power of its super-spartan stack-based syntax, though if you're the kind of person who hates Lisp because it doesn't have the C syntax your head will probably explode at the sight of Factor or Forth.
http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
The ideas present - which are much more craftsmanlike than an academic paper - are easy to absorb by skimming, and they're still relevant even after 20 years of research/fashion trends in programming.
Plus Forth itself is, in a lot of ways, the living embodiment of the YAGNI principle, which can make it look uncomfortably-to-incomprehensibly spartan to outsiders.