Re: BETWEEN

William James wrote:
> On Mar 10, 5:05 pm, "Ed" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Playing with the algorithm for WITHIN (A.6.2.2440) one gets:
>>
>> : BETWEEN  ( n1|u1 n2|u2 n3|u3 -- flag )   OVER - -ROT - U< 0= ;
> 
> Stuff like this leads one to believe that Forth code is
> unreadable, cryptic, unsharable, and unmaintainable.
> It's worse than some assembly language I've seen.
> Forth needs to become a higher-level language.

That view must arise from blind prejudice; there's certainly no logic to 
it. You might as well complain that Latin is unreadable if you don't 
know what the words mean.

Do you find C's short form assignment readable?

Jerry
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