Re: The strengths of FORTH

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:01:14 -0400, Robert Miller wrote:


> As to the perceived disadvantages of FORTH, the readability and 
> maintainability issue can be dealt with by maintaining a bit of
discipline 
> in commenting.  I am certain that anyone here would have no trouble 
> following or modifying any of my code even though it was written for a
hobby 
> application. (Doubtless my factoring and my studious avoidance of
variables 
> would draw hoots of derision from some though.)
I see it as the prize of leaving the responsibility of generating
effective
code to a virtuel mashine to the programmer person, that forth is
difficult.
   
Stack visualisation is a training matter, and comments to definitions
makes
it clear what arguments is used, but the use of definitions without any
forced parameter naming or chekking, is a very much weaker abstraction
support than the common named variable/parameter paragdigm used in other
languages.

Some 25 years ago i amused my self with this interesting mashine - reading
in this group intersting i the way, that the terms of that time falls in
the picture of computing today.
-- 
Benny Andersen