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 { I'm a bit ashamed but I really got into Forth quite recently, it's possible I spread some misinformation here, please let me know if I do, thanks <3 ~drummyfish }
 
-Forth ("fourth generation" shortened to four characters due to technical limitations) is a very [elegant](beauty.md), extremely [minimalist](minimalism.md) [stack](stack.md)-based, untyped [programming language](programming_language.md) (and a general computing environment) that uses [postfix](notation.md) (reverse Polish) notation -- it is one of the very best programming languages ever conceived. Forth's vanilla form is super simple, much simpler than [C](c.md), its design is ingenious and a compiler/interpreter can be made with relatively little effort, giving it high [practical freedom](freedom_distance.md) (that is to say Forth can really be in the hands of the people). As of writing this the smallest Forth implementation, [milliforth](milliforth.md), has just **340 bytes** (!!!) of [machine code](machine_code.md), that's just incredible. Forth finds use for example in [space](space.md) computers (e.g. [RTX2010](rtx2010.md), a radiation hardened space computer directly executing Forth) and [embedded](embedded.md) systems as a way to write efficient [low level](low_level.md) programs that are, unlike those written in [assembly](assembly.md), [portable](portability.md). Forth stood as the main influence for [Comun](comun.md), the [LRS](lrs.md) programming language, it is also used by [Collapse OS](collapseos.md) and [Dusk OS](duskos.md) as the main language. In minimalism Forth competes a bit with [Lisp](lisp.md), however, to Lisp fan's dismay, Forth seems to ultimately come out as superior, especially in performance, but ultimately probably even in its elegance (while Lisp may be more mathematically elegant, Forth appears to be the most elegant fit for real hardware).
+Forth ("fourth generation" shortened to four characters due to technical limitations) is a very [elegant](beauty.md), extremely [minimalist](minimalism.md) [stack](stack.md)-based, untyped [programming language](programming_language.md) (and a general computing environment) that uses [postfix](notation.md) (reverse Polish) notation -- it is one of the very best programming languages ever conceived. Forth's vanilla form is super simple, much simpler than [C](c.md), its design is ingenious and a compiler/interpreter can be made with relatively little effort, giving it high [practical freedom](freedom_distance.md) (that is to say Forth can really be in the hands of the people). As of writing this the smallest Forth implementation, [milliforth](milliforth.md), has just **340 bytes** (!!!) of [machine code](machine_code.md), that's just incredible (the size is very close to [Brainfuck](brainfuck.md)'s compiler size, a language whose primary purpose was to have the smallest compiler possible). Forth finds use for example in [space](space.md) computers (e.g. [RTX2010](rtx2010.md), a radiation hardened space computer directly executing Forth) and [embedded](embedded.md) systems as a way to write efficient [low level](low_level.md) programs that are, unlike those written in [assembly](assembly.md), [portable](portability.md). Forth stood as the main influence for [Comun](comun.md), the [LRS](lrs.md) programming language, it is also used by [Collapse OS](collapseos.md) and [Dusk OS](duskos.md) as the main language. In minimalism Forth competes a bit with [Lisp](lisp.md), however, to Lisp fan's dismay, Forth seems to ultimately come out as superior, especially in performance, but ultimately probably even in its elegance (while Lisp may be more mathematically elegant, Forth appears to be the most elegant fit for real hardware).
 
-Not wanting to invoke a fanboy mentality, the truth still has to be left known that **Forth may be one of best [programming](programming.md) systems yet conceived**, it is a pinnacle of programming genius. While in the realm of "normal" programming languages we're used to suffering tradeoffs such as sacrificing performance for flexibility, Forth dodges this seemingly inevitable mathematical curse and manages to beat virtually all such traditional languages at EVERYTHING at once: [simplicity](minimalism.md), [beauty](beauty.md), memory compactness, flexibility, performance and [portability](portability.md). It's also much more than a programming language, it is an overall system for computing, a calculator, programming language and its own debugger but may also serve for example as a [text editor](text_editor.md) and even, without exaggeration, a whole [operating system](os.md) (that is why e.g. DuskOS is written in Forth -- it is not as much written in Forth as it actually IS Forth). Understandably you may ask: if it's so great, why isn't it very much used "in the business"? Once someone summed it up as follow: Forth gives us unprecedented freedom and that allows [retards](soydev.md) to come up with bad design and unleash destruction -- [capitalism](capitalism.md) needs languages for monkeys, that's why [bad languages](rust.md) prosper. Remember: popularity has never been a measure of quality -- the best art will never be mainstream, it can only be understood and mastered by a few.
+Not wanting to invoke a fanboy mentality, the truth still has to be left known that **Forth may be one of best [programming](programming.md) systems yet conceived**, it is a pinnacle of programming genius. While in the realm of "normal" programming languages we're used to suffering tradeoffs such as sacrificing performance for flexibility, Forth dodges this seemingly inevitable mathematical curse and manages to beat virtually all such traditional languages at EVERYTHING at once: [simplicity](minimalism.md), [beauty](beauty.md), memory compactness, flexibility, performance and [portability](portability.md). It's also much more than a programming language, it is an overall system for computing, a calculator, programming language and its own debugger but may also serve for example as a [text editor](text_editor.md) and even, without exaggeration, a whole [operating system](os.md) (that is why e.g. DuskOS is written in Forth -- it is not as much written in Forth as it actually IS Forth). Understandably you may ask: if it's so great, why isn't it very much used "in the business"? Once someone summed it up as follows: Forth gives us unprecedented freedom and that allows [retards](soydev.md) to come up with bad design and unleash destruction -- [capitalism](capitalism.md) needs languages for monkeys, that's why [bad languages](rust.md) prosper. Remember: popularity has never been a measure of quality -- the best art will never be mainstream, it can only be understood and mastered by a few.
 
 Forth is unique in its philosophy, we might almost go as far as calling Forth a programming [paradigm](paradigm.md) of its own. It can really be hardly compared to traditional languages such as [C++](cpp.md) or [Java](java.md) -- while the "typical language" is always more or less the same thing from the programmer's point of view by providing a few predefined, hardwired, usually complex but universal constructs that are simply there and cannot be changed in any way (such as an [OOP](oop.md) system, template system, macro language, control structures, primitive types, ...), **Forth adopts [Unix philosophy](unix_philosophy.md)** (and dare we say probably better than Unix itself) by defining just the concept of a *word*, maybe providing a handful of simple words for the start, and then letting the programmer extend the language (that is even the compiler/interpreter itself) by creating new words out of the simpler ones, and this includes even things such as control structures (branches, loops, ...), variables and constant. For instance: in traditional languages we find a few predefined formats in which numbers may be written -- let's say C lets us use decimal numbers as `123` or hexadecimal numbers as `0x7b` -- in Forth you may change the base at any time to any value by assigning to the `base` variable which will change how Forth parses and outputs numbers (while a number is considered any word that's not been found in dictionary), and it is even possible to completely rewrite the number parsing procedure itself. Almost everything in Forth can be modified this way, so pure Forth without any words is not much more than a description of a [data structure](data_structure.md) and simpler parser of space-separated words, it plainly dictates a format of how words will be represented and handled on a very basic level (that's on the simplicity level of, let's say, [lambda calculus](lambda_calculus.md)) and only a *Forth system* (i.e. one with a specific dictionary of defined words, such as that defined by ANS Forth standard) provides a basic "practically usable" language. The point is this can still be extended yet further, without any end or limitation.