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Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

Definition and purpose of permacomputing: http://viznut.fi/files/texts-en/permacomputing.html

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Is forth THE language of permacomputing? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 day ago by Cassette_Punk_2045@slrpnk.net to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net
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I’m new to the community and a relatively new programmer, as well. I’m very comfortable with C and the command line. But, do I need to start studying Forth to really contribute?

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[–] 320x200@post.lurk.org 1 points 8 hours ago

@Cassette_Punk_2045 any language that can relate to the pmc design principles - https://permacomputing.net/principles - is relevant to pmc. There are no ideal languages though, no ideal solution, it's all very situated and context dependent. With that said FORTH has historically demonstrated interesting features and approaches that have inspired a lot of people close to pmc, but other noteworthy languages that often come back in pmc related discussions are Lua and Zig.