On Mar 23, 2:22 pm, William James <w_a_x_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Yeah, locals makes Forth more like C,
> You forgot to add that locals make Forth more like
> Lisp, Pascal, Ruby, Scheme, awk, Lua, etc.
> Forth programmers who don't want to use locals are
> insecure and are afraid of anything whose workings
> they don't fully comprehend. They only feel safe when
> they are manipulating the stack and programming something
> as primitive as a flush-controller for a toilet and storing their
> code in blocks on a floppy disk.
> They want Forth to be an ultra low-level, crude,
> write-only language. They should be ignored by
> programmers who have any degree of sophistication,
> and, as I said before, should be given their own play-pen:
> comp.lang.15bittoiletflushingforth.
This is brilliant satire of the kind of Usenet denizen that resorts to
ever-escalating denigrating claims and assertions when confronted with
a view they disagree with and which makes them uncomfortable ...
oftimes for reasons best left unexplored.
The only question is whether it is an intentional satire or an
unintentionally self-satirizing work.
But either way, its brilliant.
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