Re: What's right with FORTH and wrong with c.l.f.

Richard Owlett <rowlett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes Re: What's right with FORTH
and wrong with c.l.f.
[..]
> e g
> I'm interested in a variety of problems ranging from subsets of speech 
> recognition to sources of GPS errors and their significance.

> What do they have in common?
> Someone else has compiled raw data. It's available in ASCII format.
> That requires me to parse it.
> I doubt anyone would claim string handling as a Forth forte.

> I've quit asking questions on c.l.f. as typical answer has been

> "DON'T DO THAT"

I doubt that anybody has discouraged you to solve the *problem*.
They probably advised you to solve it in a way that does not involve 
(a specific way of) string handling. E.g. if the input is 

  12 apestaart 3456 kippekot 18 hondehok -771

the numbers can be fetched by string parsing and >NUMBER.

But also with  

  : apestaart ; : kippekot ; : hondehok ; PARSE-NAME EVALUATE

Without specific details it is not easy to give advise.

-marcel