On 29/06/18 18:15, ray carter wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:48:53 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>
>> Mr.Pelc woke us all up to the NG comp.lang.forth.
>>
>> Just been browsing there, and anyone needing an excuse to NOT use FORTH
>> just needs to browse there to discover that the world of FORTH is a
>> complete mess of incompatible versions.
>>
>> It would seem that for every programmer asserting himself as a FORTH
>> expert, there is yet another version of FORTH!
>>
>> With my professional (now retired) hat on, FORTH is a joke in the world
>> of educated computer professionals,
>> but with my amateur hat on, it is great fun to dabble with
>> implementations of interpreters, whether tokenised, lists of addresses,
>> or blocks ofsubroutine calls, and for the latter, in the case of the
>> RPi, for most primitives there's no need to save R30 (in 64 bit mode)
>> when called by BL!
>
> I have the perfect solution: you like it, then use it; you don't like it,
> you don't use it.
>

Its odd that te most successful langue there has probably ever been, - C
- was almost hacked together by engineers trying to get the most
successful operating system there has ever been - Unix - to work on a
fairly limied piece of hardware.

Contrast with all the computer languages designed by computer scientists
on strictly academic theoretical lines....


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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

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