Hi John, I don't want to do Ian something wrong. That's how I remember our discussion. If of importance, let's chrosscheck with him.
Cheers, Dominikus 2010/5/10 John Zabroski <johnzabro...@gmail.com> > I can't seem to find the paper where VPRI references it, but somewhere I > think they reference Henry Baker's 1993 paper The Forth Shall Be First [1]. > I think Ian or Alex referenced this, which is sort of weird considering > Dominikus's S3 Potsdam Germany anecdote that Ian said he didn't have a deep, > visceral feel for stack langauges like Forth and Factor. > > [1] See: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3227 for discussion of this > paper on LtU. > > > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Max OrHai <max.or...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all. >> >> I'm an undergraduate student (formerly CS, now math) and I've been >> reading this list since the beginning of the STEPS project: this is >> one of the most promising things I'm aware of going on in computing >> right now. (I'm a big fan of Haskell's rising popularity, although >> it's more of a case of gradual improvement, building on the traditions >> of Lisp and ML etc..) Still, I'm puzzled how I've never seen anyone >> here mention the "other" famously compact, dynamic, self-contained >> system: Forth. There's been a recent resurgence of interest in stack >> languages, mostly around Slava Pestov's Factor >> (http://factorcode.org), which seems to me to share many themes with >> the STEPS/FoNC work, although it's certainly more pragmatic in >> orientation and less earth-shaking. Does anyone here have any >> experience with Forth or Factor that they'd care to comment on? >> >> Here's a Google Tech Talks video of Pestov introducing Factor: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g >> >> - Max OrHai >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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