19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
3:08 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Tapley wrote:
At 18:08 -0500 10/14/05, cctalk-request at
classiccmp.org wrote:
Also depends on how inviolate the code must be, and how verifiable the
system. If you need to re-create the system, FORTH can be implemented with a
lot fewer gates of hardware and a lot fewer lines of code than JAVA - and
would therefore be a lot easier to verify, if you need to design/build new
hardware to run your legacy code on in 25 years.
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- Mark
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Hi
Forth is also one of the few languages that can readily be created
Suppose
you wanted to write an application for a manufacturing process
that
>will, in all probability, run for the next 30 years.... from scratch on most computer platforms. Most other
languages, you are
tied to some vendor to supply a compiler for you.
Once the core is running, the levels of high level constructs can be
easily replicated on some future machine using the original code. This
does assume that they will still be using basically a Von Neumann type
design or a Harvard like machine, such as the x86 has become.
Dwight