FORTH

MisterX b.xavier at internet.lu
Mon Oct 17 00:58:02 EDT 2005


that's possible! but forth wasn't in mind though I did try long ago
a forth language on my first mac named Neon... If anyone remembers it!

cheers
Xavier 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Wieder
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:01 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: FORTH
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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