From the title alone I tought it will be another FORTH interpreter implementation article, but I was happy to see someone actually using it for anything besides proving their interpreter with a Fibonacci calculation.

There's another front page article right now with someone using it in a very cool way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918824

thanks, somehow I missed that.

Yep, given that implementing Forth is so easy (easier even than implementing Lisp) pretty soon nearly every Forth programmer decides to take their turn doing it themselves.

I suspect, for many, that implementing a forth is more interesting than using a forth.

Once you start writing really complex programs the system gets painful and hard. But trivial things are easy, and the consistency is so appealing.

It is the bootstrap that makes it interesting.

Creating the required primitives in Assembly, and then the remaining userspace out from them.

Afterwards it is programming like most languages.

I have done it with Lisps though.

Also on 8 bit home computers it provided the feeling to be coding close to Assembly while being close enough to BASIC as high level language.

Which reminds me that its time to dust off my old FORTH and make a proper calculator out of it.

Tbh it's way less annoying, than I tought when they introduced.

Well, in Hungary had the "instant payment" for years, but last year the National Bank issued the spec. & requirement for the banks to facilitate the "qvik" payment method. Which is pretty much a QR code which you scan with your bank app and they will automatically parse & populate the fields for wire transfer. Then the payment provider will do a callback to the merchant which confirms that the payment was made [1]: https://www.cib.hu/en/Maganszemelyek/digitalis_bank/mobilalk...

1976 Manual: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/nasa_graphic...

I love all these NASA standards guides and manuals. One of the best one I still refer to and has been posted here often is their wiring guide.

https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/static/resources/nasa-std-...

Happy Bday HN! Since I come here I think I spend too much time of my workdays with reading :D