If you love HP-RPN calculators, you may love Forth as well.
Forth is a very interesting language, I find it a bit too complex for my little brain but give it a spin if, you have 2 free hours
That’s because Gforth is a threaded-code VM that saves dictionary images rather than compiling to native code.
As you prolly know, Forth blurs compile time and run time in general, and there’s no so-called clean compile, then link boundary like in C.
SwiftForth, VFX Forth, and iForth do emit real executables, and there are smaller native-code Forths for Linux too, but then the opportunity cost is losing Gforth’s portability and its standards-heavy library ecosystem.
> [Gforth is] a free, fast, featureful and portable implementation of the Forth 2012 language.
> Gforth runs under GNU, BSD, and similar systems, MS Windows and MacOS X and should not be hard to port to other systems supported by GCC.
BTW, on the other side, looks like gforth still lacks the ability to create native OS executable, something like:
gcc myprog.c -o myprog
?
As you prolly know, Forth blurs compile time and run time in general, and there’s no so-called clean compile, then link boundary like in C.
SwiftForth, VFX Forth, and iForth do emit real executables, and there are smaller native-code Forths for Linux too, but then the opportunity cost is losing Gforth’s portability and its standards-heavy library ecosystem.