29 May
2007
29 May
'07
9:22 p.m.
Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once
stated:
So just what are the primitives and just what is the CPU?
You don't hear about [4] spoken about any more.
I like the control structure of Forth but not the fact that it
hard to address conventional data structures.
As regards having spare time, it's amazing
how complicated some of my
repairs can be...But replacing a capcitor isn't one of them
Maybe for you it's easy. Possibly not for me. And possibly for the
person requesting a new Apple /// power supply (I've lost track of who that
was). To put it into perspective you might understand, can you implement a
Forth (or Forth-like) system in two hours? I did that the other night
because I was rather bored and it was more interesting than I what I was
supposed to be doing [1]. If you can't, why not? It's not that
complicated.
-spc (then again, I'm a software guy)
[1] Hanging out online with some friends. Well, I was doing that as I
was implementing the Forth-like system [2].
[2] A rather minimal system, and different enough [3] that it probably
couldn't be classified as Forth. Forth-like, yes, but not Forth.
[3] Managed to get execellent code density (it's a TIL [4]), and I
managed to do away with !, @ and most of the stack noise words (NIP,
TUCK, OVER, etc).
[4] Threaded Interpreted Langauge