I'm hoping to shift software development training away from the current academic paradigms which
always seemed to me to be designed by folks who never actually designed any real products or worked at a real company ... Most of my professional career I've used FORTH as the preferred computer language when the employer didn't care what language was used ( however, most want C which I am fluent in and accommodated them with. ). FORTH is really quite amazing I think, I can have the entire development system online and running on the target devices ready to be reprogrammed or adjusted or even completely recompiled whilst still running the application the customer is using! FORTH also has a much higher level of abstractions available than other languages, it can redefine and re-compile itself on the fly. My latest FORTH masterpiece is at Stimwave.com which is working really well, and it can do in 16k Bytes what would take 16 megaBytes with conventional designs ( I know, memory is free now so who cares how much you waste :-) but this FRAM processor doesn't have that much. ) ( Scotty in the pictures <http://stimwave.com/about-us/team> ) Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US From: Robert Ellefson [mailto:vortex-h...@e2ke.com] Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 1:50 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android From: Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:20 AM FORTH is an interesting RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programming language. Quite primitive, but deceptively powerful once you get a handle of it. I already liked RPN from using and programming my HP 11c calculator, but when I started working on hardware design at Sun in the early 90’s I really fell in love with Forth, since their boot monitor was implemented with it. For hardware debug, this was great, because I could write all kinds of hardware diagnostics and stimulus loops with very little effort, and I didn’t need to boot the OS to get a lot of lab work done. Working on hardware without a decent, programmable boot monitor has never been the same for me since. -Bob --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com
