Neal - Thanks for posting about your Quartus Forth product. Now you've
really done it: not only is all my time at work taken up with Palm
programming (CW), but now I'll be sucked into that programming daze when
away from the office (I promise, no programming while driving, really).
Never played with Forth until last night, although I had read a few snippets
about it over the years.
I get the impression Forth is in its prime with low-level embedded
applications, although it is purported to do anything one wants with typical
programmer productivity claimed at 10 times faster than programming in C.
Could one use it to efficiently write a typical "real world" large PalmOS
business application requiring lots of UI, database tables, string
manipulation, complex business logic, etc?
It would be an interesting project to port my little database engine over to
Quartus Forth.
--
Geoff Shepherd
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----- Original Message -----
From: Neal Bridges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 7:32 AM
Subject: Quartus Forth
> Open Firmware (a.k.a. IEEE 1275, the plug-and-play boot firmware used in
> SPARC workstations since 1987) was also adopted as a standard by the Power
> PC consortium (Apple, IBM, Motorola). It's Forth.
>
> You can download Quartus Forth at <http://www.interlog.com/~nbridges>.
(snip)
