R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth(github.com/phreda4)
37 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 5 comments
- tl2do 45 minutes agoInspired by this article, I tried to read some tutorials on Forth. My question is whether concatenative languages are AI-coding friendly. Apart from the training data availability, the question is also whether LLMs can correctly understand long flows of concatenated operations. Any ideas?[-]
- crq-yml 13 minutes agoThey can produce idioms that resemble the flow of Forth code but when asked to produce a working algorithm, they get lost very quickly because there's a combination of reading "backwards" (push order) and forwards (execution order) needed to maintain context. At any time a real Forth program may inject a word into the stack flow that completely alters the meaning of following words, so reading and debugging Forth are nearly the same thing - you have to walk through the execution step by step unless you've intentionally made patterns that will decouple context - and when you do, you've also entered into developing syntax and the LLM won't have training data on that.
I suggest using Rosetta Code as a learning resource for Forth idioms.
- adastra22 14 minutes agoAny concatenative program can be reduced to a rho type, and AI are pretty good about combining properly typed abstractions.
- vanderZwan 3 hours agophreda4 has been doing cool stuff with ColorForth-likes for ages and for some reason barely gets any attention for it. Always brings a smile to my face to see it submitted here
- tkdc926 2 hours agoThat is a great looking tutorial. Can't wait to try it. Thanks!