From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/04/2025 1:44 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:   
   > ...   
   > "I've looked at a lot of Forth code, and it's almost uniformly doc-free."   
   That's an attitude problem - not a language problem.   
   >   
   > "The average Forth program becomes much more quickly a mess of cryptic   
   definitions only the original programmer understands." Again, a lack of   
   documentation is not a problem of the language.   
      
   I'm sure the author of that article is accomplished but I know bias when I see   
   it.   
   Columnist John Dvorak famously said:   
      
   "I have yet to see a decent piece of software written in Forth.  Let's face it,   
    Forth stinks."   
      
   and writers ever since have piggy-backed off it.   
      
   > But after ten, twenty years I still find most of my programs are still   
   perfectly maintainable - contrary to what most notorious Forth haters claim.   
      
   Same here and not just that, there are apps whose coding I'm quite proud of   
   having   
   gone through several updates.  The amount of doc I include is based on who is   
   likely   
   to use/maintain it - usually me.  That said, some stuff has ended up in   
   commercial   
   apps and nobody has come back to me and asked for more docs.  I guess that   
   means I   
   know my audience.   
      
   Hans, if nothing else you know how to stir up forthers :-)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)