Forth Warrior: A Programming Puzzle Game

That is really neat, but I'm not sure it would be fair to other competitors- I started Forth Warrior before the competition began.

I have toy compilers for FORTRAN and Logo- perhaps one of those could be a good candidate? One of the main reasons I built this program was to help expose people to Forth, a language that I find very beautiful and powerful. It should say something that I wrote the game itself and its Forth engine in a dialect of Forth, too. If there's something you find beautiful about COBOL, there's no better way to share that than writing something with it. I'm always open to new languages, but for the process to be fun it needs to be a language I enjoy myself. At any rate, when I make other games in this vein I will always try to come up with designs that highlight the power and uniqueness of the languages I use.

Is your whole comment just kidding, or are you just kidding about helping the next great generation of programmers?

I'll take a programmer who with a deep understanding of Forth over a programmer who cobbled together a Rails app on Heroko.

Every day of the week.

Side point, unrelated to the article.. If you like Forth, you could do worse than to have a look at Factor.

For the time being, here's a standalone Jar: http://www.mediafire.com/?qs64gczqkay3ma0

It would actually be pretty easy to port the VM it runs in to JS/HTML5- Mako is only a couple hundred lines of Java, and features like sound and file I/O are optional: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Mako/blob/master/src/MakoVM.j...