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"One of the most pervasive unknown Forth successes has been FedEx's handheld package tracking devices. They were all Forth powered, under-time and budget, and w
by gnosis 15y ago
"One of the most pervasive unknown Forth successes has been FedEx's handheld package tracking devices. They were all Forth powered, under-time and budget, and worked remarkably well. The new generation of FedEx package trackers (the ones that look like scan guns) use Forth as well."
Much more here:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/forth/#projects http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/forth/#projects
- kabdib 15y agoIIRC the "new" Denver airport luggage handling system was a disaster, and it was written in FORTH. [I tried to find references, but couldn't. I do remember finding this out, and saying "That explains /everything/!"] You can code a train-wreck in anything, I guess.
- uxp 15y agoOn the other hand, the FreeBSD bootloader is written in Forth. Per installation, the Denver Airport luggage handling system was massively much more complex, but that doesn't make one terrible implementation representative of the entire language. Good things can still be well written in languages that aren't C. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/forth/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/forth/ And for some sources for the Denver Airport claim: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/08/27/1634255/Denver-Airport-Automated-Baggage-System-Abandoned http://developers.slashdot.org/story/05/08/27/1634255/Denver... http://www.44342.com/forth-f381-t4059-p1.htm http://www.44342.com/forth-f381-t4059-p1.htm Edit: it should be noted that the mechanical side of the baggage handling system was extremely complex, and at the beginning was prone to breaking.