Re: Apple IIx

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Charlie Springer wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:27:17 -0700, Michael J. Mahon wrote
> (in article <OcqdnY2t-6HrtCzVnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d@comcast.com>):
>
> > That sounds doable, since Forth is about 2K lines of code, or less than
> > one ten thousandth of a modern GUI OS!
>
> I have most of a very efficient 32 bit Forth for ARM working. I jut have 
> never finished making it ANS compatible since I'm a dinosaur who was happy 
> with FigForth and then Forth79, let olone Forth83 and Forth98 and ANS Forth. 
> They just get more complicated and add more "features."
>
> I have never been anywhere near as productive in instrumentation work as when 
> I used Forth. I Find myself comparing my C coding to Forth productivity and 
> it is very frustrating.

I've hear that from every Forth programmer I've talked to.  I think that
Forth is a great example of a fully interactive extensible language.

It's a shame that it has a reputation as a "write only" language...  ;-)

So many engineers got comfortable with RPN, that it's surprising that
Forth is usually treated as alien.

The efficiency of a tidy threaded code implementation is hard to beat!

-michael

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