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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: obfuscated Forth?
Summary: Too easy.
Message-ID: <2040@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 88 16:21:32 GMT
References: <BORIS.GNUS1@charon.mit.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <BORIS.GNUS1@charon.mit.edu>, boris@charon.mit.edu (Boris N Goldowsky) writes:
> Has anyone thought of having an Obfuscated Forth contest, somewhat
> along the model of the Obfuscated C contest?  The purpose, to
> demonstate how NOT to write Forth :-).

No, it's too easy to write horrible forth code. The real challenge would be
a clean FORTH contest: to demonstrate that you can write good code in FORTH.

After all, who can beat the beauty of { 0 ' 1 ! }? Or everyone's favorite
FIG-FORTH Boner: typing ":<CR>" and then hitting ";<CR>"
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