Re: advantages of forth over other languages

John Doty wrote:
> John Passaniti wrote:
> 
>> Three of the most common features of Forth that people point to when 
>> comparing against C is interactivity,
> 
> Very im****tant in the past. But these days the *systems* are interactive

> and I can get around the edit/build/test loop in a few seconds even with

> a compile/link language. Faster than I can think ;-)

and it is still clumsy.
you need a C-File, probable H-File, edit Makefile, take
care of dependency have to link a lot of libraries every
time only to get a small (test) function running.


>> extensibility,
> 
> But if you value straightforward code (as scientists and engineers 
> generally do), extensibility is also an invitation to obfuscation. It's 
> only a positive feature when used with great discipline.
> 
>> and the ability to do run-time evaluation.
> 
> I assume you mean compile-time: I know of few languages that prevent 
> run-time evaluation!
> 
> But here, C folks again use the *systems* that sup****t C: generate C 
> code with a script or another C program during the build. You can have 
> whatever build-time computation you want that way.

more complex dependency for makefile. C code generators tend to
be more complex as those little building words in Forth.

best wishes
Andreas Klimas