RFC 0: Introducing Forth

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3 pointsmononcqc4 comments

An OK introduction to Forth. But this doesn't seem right:

There are two types of programming language that cover 99.44% (the Chambers Constant) of programming language design.

1. Languages designed and promulgated primarily by academics like Prolog, Lisp, Haskell, Pascal, etc.

2. Languages designed and promulgated primarily by corporate entities (factoring government as a corporate entity) such as C, Java, Erlang, Ada, etc.

Where does that leave languages like Python, Perl, Ruby?

Reply from the author: "In the 0.54%."

Seems like an awfully small percentage though...

you're right. Looking at the numbers again, it ought to be 0.56%!

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