Forth is a procedural, stack-oriented programming language and interactive environment designed by Charles H. "Chuck" Moore and first used by other programmers in 1970. (Wikipedia)
Neat! Can you give some getting started instructions here for someone who's forgotten basically everything they know about using IRC (and also doesn't know gforth at all)?
I tried msging the bot directly in ##forth, but didn't get any responses -- my syntax may be wrong or I'm not msging it properly?
Thanks.
to connect to an IRC server you would need a IRC client, the most straight forward way to connect to IRC is using the web interface (https://web.libera.chat/).
you have to send message with !gforth prefix, so for example if you want to add two numbers 1 and 2 you will write something like the following in the IRC channel.
!gforth 1 2 + .
don't forget to add period ( . ) at the end!
Hmm, it's working now (Fri 12:53 PST). Thanks.
Weird... I joined the channel last night via Libera web chat, and tried that... nothing responded. I'll try again today and log what happens.
I was today years old when I learned there was a dedicated forth community on Lemmy
Not only that, there's an APL community too!
... not that there's much activity on either, but hey one must start somewhere :)