[HN Gopher] Forth BBS 2 (1985)
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Forth BBS 2 (1985)
Author : eatonphil
Score : 84 points
Date : 2021-12-17 15:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| poulsbohemian wrote:
| The BBS world was so strange... what I mean is, I remember going
| to meetups and there being all these strange cliques and insider
| jokes and culture wars that made absolutely no sense. And yet, I
| think about that time and there was so much _exploration_
| happening, where you could bounce from board to board and connect
| with people and learn new things. While I 'm sure people do meet
| strangers via social media these days, the BBS world was
| completely different in that you would truly meet people online
| and then become friends you'd hang out with in person - you could
| find your tribe, so to speak.
| allenu wrote:
| It was such a smaller world. I remember how exciting it was
| that someone on a local BBS responded to a post. I got even
| more excited when I wrote a post on FidoNet and got a response
| from someone on the other side of the continent.
|
| I was a teenager at the time and remember some of my friends
| went a dinner meetup for a BBS. They revealed it was super
| awkward afterwards, but I guess it was an older crowd.
| shrubble wrote:
| Seems to be F83 based, which should make it easy to port to
| modern Forths...
| eatonphil wrote:
| If you want more Forth in your life, the /r/forth subreddit [0]
| is pretty active. I think that's where this person found this
| project in the first place (and is now attempting to restore it).
|
| [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Forth/
| larsbrinkhoff wrote:
| This project came out of Rick's blog post:
| https://rickcarlino.com/2021/seeking-collaborators-for-proje...
| account-5 wrote:
| Forth is on my list of languages I'd like to learn but have no
| idea where to start, just like APL and Lisp.
|
| I'm not a dev but can program. Having learned a little bit of the
| history of how forth was invent I feel like a dumber kindred
| spirit to its creator. I like that he didn't know you had to
| parse, tokenerise etc and just split on the white space and read
| left to right. It feels like the way I would do it.
| nikki93 wrote:
| "Starting Forth" and "Thinking Forth" may be good books (the
| latter is kinda more architecture / philosophy though).
| 6581 wrote:
| Both these books were written by Leo Brodie. My dad had them
| because he used Forth at work. I was only 6 years old when I
| read them back then, but I absolutely loved those books. They
| were what got me into programming and I still consider them
| among the best written programming literature ever. They're
| both available for free now:
|
| https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
|
| http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
| lbruder wrote:
| Seconding "Starting Forth" and "Thinking Forth".
|
| After that, Jonesforth
| (https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-
| reposit...) is an excellent example of Literal Programming
| that starts with an Assembly listing and bootstraps into a
| complete usable Forth system. No better way to learn Forth
| than to actually implement one...
| fouc wrote:
| Cool to see someone made a BBS in forth!
|
| I used to dabble in Forth a long time ago and I always thought it
| would be interesting to see a Forth that people could telnet/ssh
| into and it would look & act like a MUD or BBS, but the prompt
| they're on could be the core Forth interpreter/REPL anyways -
| allowing optional live coding and more.
|
| I originally discovered Forth through a MUD called TinyMUCKS that
| had a neat scripting language within it called MUF (short for
| Multi-User Forth). The MUD itself was unfortunately written in C.
| [deleted]
| tech-historian wrote:
| Great that this old tech is still being shared, examined, and
| executed. All our current tech has such a rich history that is
| most often ignored.
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