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Really disappointed with the treatment of Forth, and other non conventional languages. Forth doesn’t have anything really resembling von Neumann machine random
by garmaine 8y ago
Really disappointed with the treatment of Forth, and other non conventional languages. Forth doesn’t have anything really resembling von Neumann machine random access memory. Neither, for the record, does Turing machines. But the author dismissed these as oddities when in fact they are the most unique examples of something different.
- zokier 8y agoWell, many Forths provide some form of access to heap[1] which is altogether that different from e.g. C malloc [1] https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Heap-Allocation.html https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Hea... [2] http://www.mosaic-industries.com/embedded-systems/legacy-products/qed2-68hc11-microcontroller/software/chapter_05_heap_memory_manager http://www.mosaic-industries.com/embedded-systems/legacy-pro...