On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:10:44AM -0400, J. David Boyd wrote: > Anton Ertl > <an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> writes: > > > It also does not help that many in the Forth community revel in the > > past glory of small programs on small systems, and reject features > > that are useful for larger programs. > > > > - anton > > Such as what, if you don't mind expounding a little bit?
Anything to do with libraries. A typical reaction is to cite something by Chuck Moore, and/or a claim that it is just as easy to write code for the problem from scratch, and the result is a better fit for the problem at hand, than to use a third-party library, where you have to find out how to call it and then work around the bugs etc. There is a grain of truth to the argument, but OTOH, the rest of the world has managed to do great things with libraries. > I'd like to use > Forth for some medium sized database based programming I have to do, and > wonder what would be the easiest/best way to do that.... I have no general recommendations on that, sorry. - anton
