On Mar 25, 4:04 pm, "Jeff M." <mass...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Forth is a beautiful language, and while it _can_ be used to solve any
> problem out there, just like Pascal could, some languages are just not
> suited to solve all problems with equal ease. I seriously cannot
> picture myself solving the kind of problems I'm solving daily (in
> regards to job scheduling, timing memory accesses, ...) in Forth just
> as I can't picture myself writing embedded code in Pascal. But,
> perhaps that's because I've just never tried.
I'm not sure what you mean by "in Forth" here. If there are clear
models of how the job scheduling and timing memory acessess etc. work,
and effective approaches to programming those models, then once the
elements to support one of those approaches have been implemented in
Forth, using that approach on top of those elements is programming "in
Forth".
If you mean, "I wouldn't want to program that in Forth if I have to
identify an effective approach to program to those models of job
scheduling, timing memory accesses, etc. and then hammer out the
elements to implement that approach on my own before I can begin to
actually get started programming" ...
.... well, yeah. I'd say that's the same social computing challenge,
and there's nothing in it that is intrinsic to massively super-
parallel computing, but then again you'd expect me to say that.
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