8-bit FORTH - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Nov 1998

At 09:42 AM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
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Another project in the tapes is an 'OS' based on a Byte book called
'Threaded Interpretive Languages' - just curious what opionions
are out there about FORTH as an 8-bit os. It seemed like just
the right balance of control - not as terse as assembly, and
not as handcuff'd as BASIC.
 I found FORTH to be _more_ terse than any other language, except maybe APL.
I tried a forth computer  80188 SBC with FORTH in EPROM (Used in the
"Radio-Elextronics" Robot - 1986, 1987), and never became a great fan. I
quess partly is I knew people who had pride on how complicated a program
they could write on a single line. Very difficult to read!!! 476#!@NXDUP&+
(just joking)
-Dave