[HN Gopher] FORTH? Really!?
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       FORTH? Really!?
        
       Author : rescrv
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2026-02-06 13:54 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | rescrv wrote:
       | Looking to discuss with people about whether LLMs would do better
       | if the language had properties similar to postfix-notation.
        
         | shakna wrote:
         | Most models are multi-paradigm, and so they get... Fixated on
         | procedural language design. Concepts like the stack,
         | backtracking, etc. violate the logic they've absorbed, leading
         | to... Burning tokens whilst it corrects itself.
         | 
         | This won't show up in a smaller benchmark, because the
         | clutching at straws tends to happen nearer to the edge of the
         | window. The place where you can get it to give up obvious
         | things that don't work, and actually try the problem space
         | you've given.
        
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