That's interesting. I played around with Forth back in the mid-70's and, while I have never been a fan of RPN, I remember being impressed with its flexibility.
What I don't remember is there being any sort of list construct that took an index. None of the stacks did. Then again, there were a number of variants of Forth over the years. Perhaps mine was a minimal implementation. Is it possible that your Forth had self-created a 0-based list word? I know exactly where my Forth textbook is on my bookshelves, but they are three states away right now, so I'll just have to take your word for it. Regardless, in the pantheon of quirky non-human-oriented programming languages, Forth has to rank fairly high. Not bad for an astronomer in the late 50, tho... -Chip- On 1/12/10 04:33 Jack Woehr said: > Chip Davis wrote: >> _Only_C_programmers_ adjust their thinking to start lists with '0'. >> >> > Nah, we did that in Forth too. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
