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		pjmlp 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Implementing a Forth It made more sense in the 8 bit home computer era, where you could do a more high level coding with more performance than a BASIC interpreter, without having to mess with hexdumps for DATA segments, or Assembly opcodes.

rwmj 7 months ago [–]

And specifically this is because compiled Forth uses a simple kind of compression. (This is explained a bit better in jonesforth).

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