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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:15:43 +1000
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On 16/04/2025 5:47 am, mhx wrote:
>> 1_0 2_0 + . \ output: 30
> 
> Sorry, I really don't like this. It takes away my
> underlying mental model of how things should work.
> What happens for "10_ 20_ + ." ?

By "mental model" presumably you mean cultural conditioning?  Since
as far as I'm aware nobody is born with it.  While some fret over
1. F.  I can't say it's been an issue since leaving Microsoft BASIC
in the 1980's.  Perhaps my missing the whole C thing had something
to do with it - in which case I'm grateful.  The endless comparison
of Forth with other languages only serves to belittle it.