Slightly OT, but nothing can beat DonHopkins’s “About” section here on HN [0].
That beautiful is.
Saw the same joke with Postscript many years ago.
Prediction: someone will make a reverse polish notation skill for interacting with claude claiming all sorts of things, like caveman, turn into another markdown as a service company, and make the news.
I first thought this was some spin on May the fourth be with you. As in how Yoda might say it.
FORTH LOVE? IF HONK THEN
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A different way to say the same: in forth, words get pushed on the stack, and popped from the stack by words that take arguments:
code stack
I Forth love
Forth love I
love I
Forth
; love presumably pops
; subject, object args
; from stack - and does something
; perhaps prints as side effectIs that loss?
I found https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page quite useful for that.
Forth uses RPN so the "verb" is last.
That is, you provide the data first (I and Forth) and the command (heart) last.
Forth I assume uses reverse polish notation: arguments before the operator.
3 4 +
for example, would return 7.
The stack is really a convenience that makes pipeline-driven programming possible in the language.
> would return 7
more pedantically, it would push 7 onto the stack
even more pedantically, would remove 3 and 4 from the stack before pushing 7