26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
12:33 p.m.
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
I thought I'd mentioned that it is not entirely
true that
no other computer language can be converted to another language.
Not being a natural language, Forth, can easily be converted
to any standard text type language and there has even been
efforts to convert to Chinese( not text type ). Since Forth
has its own rules on noun/verb/object order, the language
that it uses is not important.
I have seen a Chinese version of COBOL, and a Japanese version of
Forth, although it might not have ever been commercially available
outside of the large Japanese electronics company that used it
in-house. The extensibility and "postfix" syntax of Forth make it
especially suitable for Japanese.