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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 11:07:56 +1000
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On 6/04/2025 11:43 pm, sjack wrote:
> dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That holes still exist after 30 years can only mean forthers are
>> content with less than perfect documentation.  No?
>>
> 
> I don't worry much about documentation. If I don't understand my
> code it's no big deal, I probably didn't know what I was doing in
> the first place. As long as the computer can understand it and get
> it right, most of the time, I've done my job.

Folks like a security blanket - authority handed down.  Often just
holding and cherishing the documentation, repeating the verses, is
enough.  Throw a curveball and it's like watching Forbidden Planet
where Robby the Robot is presented with contradictory instructions.
Luckily Standard Forth is mostly harmless as nobody takes it seriously.