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		jvanderbot 41 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Mo... No love for Forth? The opening paragraph just nails the whole concept of a machine operator instead of machine programmer - the driving principle behind Forth, right?

burnt-resistor 41 days ago [–]

Also used in the previous FreeBSD bootloader and the "portable" monochrome CRT word processors donated to a middle school I attended around 1992.

In terms of ops usability, it's difficult to beat reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features of mainframes. Erlang/OTP comes close.

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