19 Oct
2005
19 Oct
'05
1:06 p.m.
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Mark Tapley wrote:
True, assuming you can't write a compiler (or find one from somewhere) -
or do you mean that the language spec isn't available for most languages
without at least shelling out $$$ (I'd be surprised if that were the
case, but stranger things have happened)
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
210-522-6025, temporary cell 240-375-2995
Hi
Forth is also one of the few languages that can readily be created from
scratch on most computer platforms. Most other languages, you are tied
to some vendor to supply a compiler for you. Suppose
you wanted to write an application for a manufacturing
process that
>will, in all probability, run for the next 30 years....