begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:41:13AM -0800: > I was playing around with stochastic programming, > by which I mean programs that have randomly chosen > flow control. The MAYBE branch would randomly be > taken or not depending on an underlying statistical > event.
Every play with SR? > Thus the MAYBE branch would be taken say 50% of > the times when one entered the branching construct. Lots of other fun words: SORTA KINDA MOSTLY RARELY OFTEN SOMETIMES GODKNOWS BLUEMOON > Since everything in Forth is a WORD i.e. a named subroutine > that is passed variables on the parameter stack, including > the control constructs, which compile run time routines > that look at flags on the stack, it is not difficult to create > new or modify the existing control structures. TCL is similiar... Want a new control structure? No problem! > This is great for exploring things like fuzzy logic. One writes > a little language that is seamlessly embedded in Forth and > which implements the fuzzy constructs. Easy to do; takes > only a few lines of code. Did anyone every make a Literate Programming translator for Forth? -- Never tried "literate programming" in ange^Wearnest. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
