We wound up talking a lot about Forth, a stack based language that was originally developed to serve the needs of Astronomers.
http://bit-player.org/wp-content/extras/bph-publications/CompLang-1986-04-Hayes-Forth.pdf My Life as a Forth Interpreter I thought this was one of the very best articles ever published in "Computer Language". It is very funny, but also does a great job of explaining how Forth worked. """ The woman at the employment agencygave my resume a cursory look and askeda few questions. Curiously, we talked mainly about Polish and about something she called Reverse Polish, which I gathered was a sort of backwards jargon, like pig Latin. I told her plainly that I could speak no Polish either backwards or forwards, but it made no difference; all of Central Europe was of a piece to her. At the end of our brief interview she said I could have the job, and she scribbled the address on a slip of paper. """ I was pleased to find the piece and hope you enjoy it. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix DLSLUG/GNHLUG library http://dlslug.org/library.html http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dlslug&sort=stamp http://www.librarything.com/rss/recent/dlslug _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org https://mail.dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/
