FORTH

[Mark Wieder]

Dennis-

Sunday, October 16, 2005, 9:58:04 AM, you wrote:

> to Forth.  Forth is a low level but extensible language and IDE from

Forth? (Running over to x's web site to check it out...) Forth is as
close to the metal as you can get without writing in ones and zeros.

> One of the weaknesses of XTalk/Transcript in my opinion was that you
> could not directly and efficiently extend the language in this same way.

XTalk would be more on the path to Forthness if we could overload
keywords and add new ones. Of course, that would probably also require
namespaces and an include mechanism. Imagine patching "trunc" so that
it does the right thing by:

function trunc pValue
  return trunc(pValue & "")
end trunc

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-Mark Wieder
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