> "Luke Paireepinart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >>> forth ... while very good for small programs >>> to imbed into controller cpu's to bury inside some machine,
> It's a relatively little known fact that Sun use Forth as the > monitor/bootloader in their servers. When you do a shutdown > on a Sun box it takes you into a Forth interpreter! >>> different that rank beginners learn it faster than experienced >>> hands >>> do. it's just so damn odd. > Yep, it's one of the few languages that I just gave up on, > the pain wasn't worth the gain. I wound up moving to Tcl; > and Tcl isn't exactly mainstream! But it was a lot more > conventional than Forth. The only language I've used that > was equally different was Prolog. Postscript borrows heavily from Forth, I think. Alan _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
