On 2019-09-06 14:42, address@hidden wrote:
Why has Forth disappeared so completely? I guess I really mean, why
did it
lose popularity. I came along just as Forth Dimensions was
disappearing, and
all the different Forth companies were all going out of business.
I love Forth, it seems like a perfect language. Not that easy to hook
it up to
all the Microsoft stack perhaps, but still wonderful once you do.
Is it just that the world has moved on?
In my opinion there has been no fundamental change. E.g., over the years,
the sales numbers of iForth haven't really changed, and I see myself
and others use Forth more and more for truly unbelievable stuff.
What has changed is the disappearance of high-quality / highly
interesting
magazines like FD. We all know what has come in their place. It will take
another decade (and another generation) to rebalance quality and
quantity.
We did lose a few Forth generations to the smart-phone and social
media :-)
-marcel