ANN: New Website for TAOO

[Dennis Brown]

Dan,

I realize that Forth is arcane.  However, it is simple to grasp the  
concept behind it, and it is the only language I ever used (albeit  
for only a few days 25 years ago),  that is inherently extensible  
(and re-definable).  In fact if you don't extend the language, you  
would have a hard time accomplishing anything.  I pretty much  
understood most of the language concept the first day I was exposed  
to it.  But coming from the machine language and hardware side of  
things, it fit right into my mental landscape.

I was trying to find a very simple example that I could relate to in  
order to conceptualize the environment provided by TAOO.  If this  
concept is correct, then I would not have any trouble figuring out  
TAOO and might even be able to explain the concept to others in  
simple terms.

However, if you did not "get" Forth, you might not be able to tell me  
if I have got any kind of mental hook to grab onto it yet.  I  
understand Small Talk  is an extensible language and you are familiar  
with it.  Can you draw any parallels in that direction?

Dennis

On Oct 16, 2005, at 8:07 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Dennis.....
>
> Gawd, do I hope you're wrong about the parallel with FOrth! :-D
>
> Forth and LISP are the only two programming languages I ever  
> attempted to learn and just gave up on. If TAOO is like Forth, I'm  
> going to go back to programming in object assembler. It'll be less  
> painful.
>
> (Just kidding. At least mostly.)
>
> Dan
>
> On Oct 16, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Dennis Brown wrote:
>
>
>> Xavier,
>>
>> After reading your new introduction on the wiki page.  Something  
>> clicks.  If I understand what TAOO is supposed to be, I can relate  
>> it to Forth.
>>
>
>
>
>
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