gavino wrote:
> http://www.mpeforth.com/arena/ProgramForth.pdf
section 21
>
> I know I should stop theorizing but wouldn't it make sense that
> something good in small memory systems would do really well with lots
> of memory EG modern intel commodity hardware?
In my opinion yes.
> Or do things like lisp have garbage collection etc( he mentions) that
> make it simpler that forth for non memory thin hardware?
There is at least one Forth that sup****ts garbage collection
(PowerMops). I'm not a big fan of GC, preferring instead to clean up
after myself explicitly. But the point remains that there is
*technically* nothing preventing high-level programming features from
being implemented in Forth.
-Doug
