Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2021-11-23, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > Fair enough - forth seems to be popular in ROM definitions. I don't > > > completely trust those SO numbers. I picked some more reasonable F#y > > > keywords like `let` and `|>` and got over 1/4 million files. The F# > > > compiler itself is reported to be 5-10% `forth` by the github id, and > > > that seems unlikely https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/search?l=f%23 > > > > > >  > > > > > > I'll think on this - I would love vim to have beautiful F# support. I > > > can get by with a hacked distribution for now. I am interested in the > > > language integration in neovim too, so this might be the catalyst to > > > switch which would be a bit sad, but I appreciate the principled > > > discussion. > > > > I don't think forth is a popular language. It's also very old and I > > would think popularite goes down. It doesn't show up in the list that > > github provides: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2021/3 > > While F# is in position 38. Still below Vim script. > > The Gforth source was last updated in 2014. The Gforth mailing list > is still active. It's hard to tell how much it's actually used. > I didn't look for projects using it. > > > I wonder why Forth files would end in ".fs", it's more logical to read > > it as F Sharp. > > FORTH has apparently been around since 1970 and Gforth since 1992. > FORTH files needed an extension and .f was already taken by FORTRAN, > so someone thought of .fs. F# wasn't a consideration since it > didn't appear until 2005. Well, they could have picked .frt. Perhaps they thought it looked too much like "fart"? :-) -- Citizens are not allowed to attend a movie house or theater nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic. [real standing law in Indiana, United States of America] /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20211123204218.F16851C3E09%40moolenaar.net.
