Bob La Quey wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forth, however, doesn't seem to be any deader than usual.
Chuckle, same as it always was. Often found in obscure places.
Yeah, that's a paraphrased line from the Lisp world:
“Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.” — David Thornley,
reply to a question older than most programming languages
Forth still has uses
Now *that* I don't argue. Being a FreeBSD bigot, I do occasionally have
to dabble in Forth to beat the bootloader into submission.
I just question its use as a general purpose language. It doesn't seem
to do abstraction to my taste.
-a
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