19 Jun
1998
19 Jun
'98
3:23 p.m.
Joe wrote:
At 03:20 AM 6/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
Blame it on lack of sleep. Somehow my fatigued brain crossed the
histories of APL and Forth. Both wonderful languages, and both
essentially write-only.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
No, Charles Moore created FORTH as a notation system for teaching
mathematics -- it just happened that when the notation system was
converted to a programming language that it became handy for such
things as controlling telescopes.
--
Are you sure you're not confusing it with Ken Iverson and APL? He
created it as a mathematical teaching language.