@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #2235314
2026-02-01 19:18 UTC
@suetanvil@freeradical.zone
I like the sentiment, but in practice, systems become complex because real humans demand complex behaviors.
The delightful simplicity in lisp and forth works when the problems you solve are delightfully simple and can all be kept in your head at once.
Yes, there are also people who add needless complexity, and that should all be removed, but the fundamental world is super complex and over simplifying only leads to a poor fit to real requirements.
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@resuna@ohai.social 2026-02-01 20:22
@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place @suetanvil@freeradical.zone Pretty much any problem is easier to implement in Lisp or Forth, because reflection is a first-class feature of both languages.