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angrycoder
on May 23, 2011
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Lost at C? Forth May Be the Answer
> Industry experience has shown that a Forth programmer is up to ten times more productive than a C programmer.
Anytime I see some kind of statement like this, I am reminded of the python paradox.
mseebach
on May 23, 2011
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Forth has 20 years on Python, and the industry has gotten infinitely more conservative in those 20 years. When Forth came out, using computers was radical. When Python came out, using C++ was radical.
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Anytime I see some kind of statement like this, I am reminded of the python paradox.