BASIC: The Unsung Hero of Home Computing and Python’s Modern Echo

Discover the resurgence of the BASIC programming language and its impact on the software development landscape. From the nostalgia-driven return of retired developers to the passion of retro computing enthusiasts, this article explores the enduring legacy of BASIC and envisions new possibilities for a language that once sparked the home computer revolution.

Implementing Stack Oriented Languages – Part 4

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Implementing Stack Oriented Languages

Strings and Variable So far we’ve added lots of stack operations and a couple I/O routines with the KEY and EMIT keywords. At the moment if we wanted to write a simple “Hello World” application we would need to place each character on the stack and pop them off using the EMIT keyword. This is

Implementing Stack Oriented Languages — Part 2

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Implementing Stack Oriented Languages

Part 2 – The Parser It’s been some time since the first installment. It amazes me how quickly time flies by when you have so many projects at hand. So let’s jump right in and get coding! Before we get started though, let’s make some changes to our keywords file. First, we won’t need the

Implementing Stack Oriented Languages

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Implementing Stack Oriented Languages

TLDR; Warning long post While most software developers have heard of Structural, Imperative, Object-Oriented, Prototypal, and Functional programming paradigms, and the language types that support them. Few have heard of Stack Oriented Programming even though it’s been around for quite some time. while this seemingly obscure programming construct is out of the norm for most