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I love Forth but it's anything but 'stackless'. In fact, it's probably one of the most stack intensive languages to ever exist (and one of the funnest, especia
by mtm 16y ago
I love Forth but it's anything but 'stackless'. In fact, it's probably one of the most stack intensive languages to ever exist (and one of the funnest, especially when used for embedded systems work).
'Starting Forth' is indeed a treasure, I think I'll dig out my old copy and add it to the stack, heh.
- iuguy 16y agoThanks for pointing out my brainfart, I've edited it. As a thankyou, here's the Forth I used as a kid: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008178 http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008178 ISTR it was a FIG-Forth implementation, but I haven't used it in over 20 years (wow, that feels old) so I might be wrong.
- mtm 16y agoNo sweat. I remember using Apple Forth (from Cap'n Software) in 1982 in Independent Study in high school. I made a cloud chamber simulator with it for the Physics department. (Side note: my public high school had an awesome science department: a radiation class complete with scintillation counters, a cobalt source in a lead pig, etc. PDP-11 and Apple IIs, small radio telescope on the roof. Riverview High School, Sarasota, FL; no idea what it's like these days.)
- iuguy 16y agoWow, I spent two years looking after a PDP 11/23 running RTS/E. Interesting times... In that I've never met anyone less than 20 years older that understands what I've done (and to be fair most of those older than that have an aamazing understanding compared to me), I found it amazing that between the PDP and AS/400 box at work that they were bought by people that retired a long time ago and still ran, not that the data coming out was accurate. I think the rest of my employer's place was like that, and perhaps that was part of the problem.