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r/Forth
Forth - The programming language for low-fat computing.
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"In particular you need to avoid writing code for situations that will never arise in practice. You need to avoid writing code to handle a general problem that you are never going to encounter. I don't need to solve the general problem when I only have to solve these specific cases." -- Chuck Moore
#Why Forth?
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You can try things out interactively as you build your system. The compiling functionality is an exposed part of the language like everything else.
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It can be used to debug itself!
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Forth has no baked-in syntax or privileged data structures -- programming is done by extending t...
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Total Submissions
1,996
Total Comments
12,551
Earliest Submission
February 19, 2009
Earliest Comment
March 9, 2009
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Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | 198 | 16,566 | 1259.9 | 0.1 | 9120.41 | |
| #2 | 161 | 25,063 | 1024.4 | 0.2 | 4901.84 | |
| #3 | 107 | 38,305 | 680.8 | 0.3 | 2131.55 | |
| #4 | 40 | 22,503 | 254.5 | 0.2 | 1356.40 | |
| #5 | 50 | 29,539 | 318.1 | 0.2 | 1291.64 | |
| #6 | 48 | 31,266 | 305.4 | 0.3 | 1171.48 | |
| #7 | 37 | 24,576 | 235.4 | 0.2 | 1148.83 | |
| #8 | 74 | 50,969 | 470.9 | 0.4 | 1107.88 | |
| #9 | 45 | 33,198 | 286.3 | 0.3 | 1034.35 | |
| #10 | 88 | 77,210 | 559.9 | 0.6 | 869.71 | |
| #11 | 124 | 109,385 | 789.0 | 0.9 | 865.03 | |
| #12 | 89 | 92,643 | 566.3 | 0.8 | 733.07 | |
| #13 | 183 | 221,402 | 1164.4 | 1.8 | 630.72 | |
| #14 | 116 | 141,089 | 738.1 | 1.2 | 627.38 | |
| #15 | 157 | 200,966 | 999.0 | 1.7 | 596.13 | |
| #16 | 110 | 140,836 | 699.9 | 1.2 | 596.00 | |
| #17 | 1,875 | 2,467,448 | 11930.5 | 20.6 | 579.86 | |
| #18 | 75 | 111,372 | 477.2 | 0.9 | 513.87 | |
| #19 | 106 | 158,832 | 674.5 | 1.3 | 509.25 | |
| #20 | 54 | 89,447 | 343.6 | 0.7 | 460.68 | |
| #21 | 43 | 74,896 | 273.6 | 0.6 | 438.10 | |
| #22 | 39 | 69,561 | 248.2 | 0.6 | 427.82 | |
| #23 | 55 | 112,742 | 350.0 | 0.9 | 372.26 | |
| #24 | 32 | 71,410 | 203.6 | 0.6 | 341.95 | |
| #25 | 63 | 142,638 | 400.9 | 1.2 | 337.03 | |
| #26 | 40 | 94,005 | 254.5 | 0.8 | 324.70 | |
| #27 | 47 | 132,316 | 299.1 | 1.1 | 271.05 | |
| #28 | 34 | 100,846 | 216.3 | 0.8 | 257.27 | |
| #29 | 54 | 162,524 | 343.6 | 1.4 | 253.54 | |
| #30 | 50 | 165,712 | 318.1 | 1.4 | 230.24 | |
| #31 | 72 | 252,630 | 458.1 | 2.1 | 217.48 | |
| #32 | 144 | 518,276 | 916.3 | 4.3 | 212.02 | |
| #33 | 46 | 168,440 | 292.7 | 1.4 | 208.39 | |
| #34 | 91 | 361,222 | 579.0 | 3.0 | 192.24 | |
| #35 | 45 | 182,431 | 286.3 | 1.5 | 188.23 | |
| #36 | 43 | 175,475 | 273.6 | 1.5 | 186.99 | |
| #37 | 152 | 631,962 | 967.2 | 5.3 | 183.54 | |
| #38 | 58 | 256,593 | 369.1 | 2.1 | 172.48 | |
| #39 | 574 | 2,561,969 | 3652.3 | 21.4 | 170.96 | |
| #40 | 55 | 247,483 | 350.0 | 2.1 | 169.58 | |
| #41 | 138 | 639,367 | 878.1 | 5.3 | 164.70 | |
| #42 | 41 | 190,178 | 260.9 | 1.6 | 164.51 | |
| #43 | 32 | 164,230 | 203.6 | 1.4 | 148.68 | |
| #44 | 30 | 154,513 | 190.9 | 1.3 | 148.16 | |
| #45 | 33 | 172,164 | 210.0 | 1.4 | 146.26 | |
| #46 | 37 | 197,679 | 235.4 | 1.6 | 142.83 | |
| #47 | 30 | 160,643 | 190.9 | 1.3 | 142.50 | |
| #48 | 101 | 560,069 | 642.7 | 4.7 | 137.61 | |
| #49 | 136 | 785,260 | 865.4 | 6.5 | 132.16 | |
| #50 | 35 | 214,671 | 222.7 | 1.8 | 124.41 |