My Implementing a Forth article got some great feedback, particularly around the subject of tiny Forth implementations. (And it was an excuse to list some of the tiniest Forths I’ve seen.)
I know I’m not alone in seeing the appeal of tiny Forths, tiny languages, tiny programs, and just small stuff in general. What’s up with that, anyway?
If I see that something is 200 lines of code, I’m much more likely to read it than if it’s 2,000 or 20,000 lines.
What’s more, if it’s a program that does something interesting in 20 lines when I was expecting 2,000, then I’m going to be very, very interested to read those 20 lines!
