Re: The Promise of Forth

On Mar 23, 9:39 pm, Elizabeth D Rather <erat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> People who think often produce solutions as fast or faster than drones
> who don't.  Forth has a reputation for nearly 40 years of helping
> thinking people produce results more quickly than other tools.  So it
> should appeal both to folks who think and folks who want quick
solutions.
>
> I see no reason to dumb down Forth for people who don't want to think
> (or can't).  As John Passaniti often points out, people should be able
> to chose the language that suits the problem at hand.  Forth will never
> be all things to all people; nothing else is, why should Forth be?  If
> Forth is a good language for "thinking people" I don't see why that's a
> "limitation".

Forth is for those who don't think; for wretches who spend
their time on the tedious, menial, mindless task of keeping
track of where on the stack their variables are.  Very
unproductive and primitive.  And they have a religious
belief that avoiding local variables is The Right Thing
To Do!  Chucky and Lizzy told them so!