DogestFogey

The beauty of Forth is that parsing is trivial, just read a space-delimited word from the input buffer and do a simple string lookup through a linked list. The syntax is whatever you want it to be. For me, I modeled my interpreter/compiler heavily off of the jonesforth implementation in x86 assembly.

I found out about Lisp a year before Forth! Working through SICP, watching the lectures and of course writing lots of Scheme programs have really helped me improve.

Emacs encourages this behavior because its operations that work on sentences require the use of two spaces after a period. Although it's possible to make it work with single spaces, it won't be able to reliably distinguish between abbreviations (such as etc.) and the ends of sentences.

A truly masterfully written article that makes us yearn for the days now past when everything, both inside and outside of ourselves, was much quieter.

The amount of noise today is unprecedented. I am reminded of the movie _Her_ in which one sees a world where technology can move into the background and augment human relationships. Granted, there are moments in that film when the tech hurts instead of hinders, but compare that to today's world where everything has the "in your face" mentality.