On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Ron K. Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark, > > FORTH is nor so much a programming language as an IQ test.
FORTH is more like Neurobics since FORTH doesn't do implicant binding or implicant and random execution order. FORTH makes you start at the beginning them go towards the end. > David passes, I fail. ;) " This overhead was unacceptable to many computer designers and users, forcing them to declare recursion undesirable, useless, and forbidden. They refused to acknowledge that the difficulty arose because of their inadequate call instruction." -- Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass by N Wirth http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas.pdf > More seriously, it requires you write what is essentially machine > language for a stack based virtual machine, and C/C++ requires you write what is essentially machine language for a register virtual machine. :P You need to learn to use the outer interpretor. if you only use in inner interpretor that yes. it's just like using a C/C++ compiler as a assembler by just inlining the ass code in the C wrapper FORTH's outer interpretor is like preprocessor and compiler. if you just using the linker and to write programs by piecing together object files into executable it is going to be an IQ test. > > --- > Ron K. Jeffries > > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 01:41, mark adrian bell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> --- On Fri, 28/1/11, David Kuehling <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> got an article about the Nanonote into the magazine "Vierte >>> Dimension" >>> that deals with stuff surrounding the forth programming >>> language. Got >>> the printed version about a week ago. The online >>> version is accessible >>> here: >>> >>> http://www.forth-ev.de/repos/vd/4d2010-04.pdf >>> >>> (not an official download, but the archive [1] doesn't >>> carry the link >>> yet) >>> >>> That's german language, and focusing on programming the >>> nanonote in >>> forth, maybe not very interesting to 99.9% of nanonote >>> users :) >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> David >>> >>> [1] http://www.forth-ev.de/filemgmt/viewcat.php?cid=2 >> >> >> Still, congratulations on your publication. I wish I was clever enough to >> program in Forth! >> >> - mark >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qi Hardware Discussion List >> Mail to list (members only): [email protected] >> Subscribe or Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >> > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > -- Sincerely, Panthera Tigris Altaica _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
