Re: The strengths of FORTH

On Mar 27, 1:01 pm, "Robert Miller" <rsmil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have followed with considerable interest, the thread 'The Promise of
FORTH'
> started by Johan Thomas.  Much has been made of FORTH's perceived
> shortcomings

"perceived shortcomings"
"PERCEIVED shortcomings"
You imply that Forth has only perceived shortcomings!
No real ones!
It was created by God Almighty!

>    but as these are mostly inherent, there is little likelihood
> that any significant changes can be made.

A significant change has been made.  Most Forths have
local variables.  However, the boneheads superstitiously
avoid using them (it is feared that they may cause
cancer).

And the language Factor has made even more significant
changes.

The boneheads, the mindless, the drones, the
embedded-controller toilet-flusher programmers
want Forth to be as crude and primitive as possible.

[...]
> 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

Did God tell you to avoid variables?  Did your mommy?
You deliberately and smugly made your code less readable
because bonehead Forth "gurus" told you to.  Talk about
blind faith!

> would draw hoots of derision from some though.)
>
> As to getting FORTH known to the wider community, I am at somewhat of a
> loss.  Certainly encouraging code sharing would be helpful - if the
shared
> code was well done and well documented.  Maybe FORTH Inc. should be
> providing T-shirts displaying their Logo with each SwiftX or SwiftForth

This is a good illustration of the childish mentality
of bonehead Forthers.