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gavino <gavcomedy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Feb 1, 3:34 am, Albert van der Horst <alb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article
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>> Jeff M. <mass...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <snip>
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>> >really a ton of code behind it; nothing magical is going on. With a
>> >similar library in Forth I could easily code the same thing:
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>> > s" Hello, world!" email< m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> send-email
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>> With ``WANT echo'' this is how it looks in ciforth/lina
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>> echo 'Hello worlds!' | mail albert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >It's equally brief, just as readable, and there's just as much code
>> >that exists underneath it, making it possible. In the end, stating
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>> You have invented a new syntax. Where Forth is an interpreter, it
>> makes sense to allow using similar commands as a familiar command
shell.
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>> The problem is, once you think of it, it is done. This is a simple
>> two screener (one for OS-IM****T and one for the commands im****ted).
>> So maybe Forth is just too easy.
>>
>> OS-IM****T works as follows:
>> If you want to use mail from with Forth, invoking as MAIL :
>>
>> s" mail" OS-IM****T MAIL
>>
>> Implementation is left as an exercise to the reader.
>>
>> <SNIP>
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>>
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>> >Languages like Lisp and Forth are very good for two reasons: first,
>> >they actively encourage factoring in many ways (which ends up leading
>> >to very readable and terse code at the highest level) and second, they
>> >are extensible, meaning if you really need to add syntactic sugar for
>> >brevity/readability, that's possible as well.
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>> >Jeff M.
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>> --
>> --
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>once you think of it , it is done?
Well, let's try it shall we?
S" mail" OS-IM****T MAIL
Apparently OS-IM****T is a defining word, that has a string stored
inside. So we have
: OS-IM****T CREATE HERE OVER CELL+ ALLOT $!
\ Others may have PLACE or just a word to make a string permanent.
DOES> ... ;
No what do we need to fill in for the runtime action?
We want to fetch that string and append the remainder of the
line to it, then call the operating system.
like so
... $@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PAD $! BL PAD $C+ ^M PARSE PAD $+! PAD $@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SYSTEM
The second screen is about filling in :
S" edlin" OS-IM****T edit
S" TYPE" OS-IM****T cat
S" COPY" OS-IM****T cp
Caveat, this uses lina mini-strings.
Other Forth's may have different string manipulation words,
sometimes even shortening this.
I hope that you see that I can't get a publication in a peer-reviewed
journal out of this.
Groetjes Albert
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