> It has a stack but the stack is an implementation detail, not a robust abstraction.
replyNot exactly. Not only the stack is central in the design of Forth (see my comment over there [1]).
It seems to me that a point-free language like Forth would be highly problematic for an LLM, because it has to work with things that literally are not in the text. I suppose it has to make a lot of guesses to build a theory of the semantic of the words it can see.
Nearly every time the topic of Forth is discussed on HN, someone points out that the cognitive overload* of full point-free style is not viable.
I didn't finish my second sentence: not only the stack is a central element in the design of Forth, it also has 2 of them: data stack and return stack. the return stack is also used directly by programmers.
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