Hi Hugh,
Looks interesting, skimmed your link a bit and bookmarked for when I have
some more time.
The more the merrier!
Best,
John.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Hugh Aguilar <hughaguila...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I designed the FMITE processor that could be built into an FPGA. It is
> designed to have compact machine-code. It has support for quotations (a
> kind of lambda function) that Forth-200x lacks:
> http://www.forth.org/FMITE.txt
> In order to dodge the disrepute of ANS-Forth, I have changed the name of
> the language from Forth to LOTD (Language Of The Damned). LOTD is closer to
> Lisp or Factor than it is to ANS-Forth or C --- LOTD is the only language
> available for micro-controllers (afaik) that supports lambda functions ---
> Factor is way too big and slow to be used in a micro-controller. Also,
> because Factor does GC, it is not deterministic in regard to how slow it is
> (it stutters), so it can't be used in real-time no matter how fast the
> processor is. LOTD is an attempt to bring ideas from the Factor world to
> the real world --- almost all processors used for real-time programs are
> 8-bit or 16-bit, and the big 32-bit processors are rare (this will likely
> continue to be true throughout the 21st century).
>
> I am hoping that Slava will allow me to use this forum to support the
> FMITE and LOTD (he allows Joy and STAAPL to be supported here) --- I want
> to get away from comp.lang.forth that is unmoderated and where trolls
> routinely say that my code "sucks" or is "crap" or that I am "stupid." If
> the FMITE and LOTD are too off-topic for this forum though, then then I
> will drop out --- I don't really have much interest in Factor programming
> (all desktop-computer programming seems boring to me, whatever language may
> be used) --- I might consider making Factor a sister-language to LOTD
> though, as micro-controller programming sometimes involves programs running
> on a desktop-computer that generate tables of constants for use on the
> micro-controller (the calculations are done with higher-precision integers
> or even with floating-point such as Factor supports but LOTD does not
> support).
>
> regards --- Hugh
>
>
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