Re: advantages of forth over other languages

On May 3, 6:43 pm, John Doty <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
> In my experience it's barriers in *programmers'* minds. I see powerful
> evidence that that barrier exists in *your* mind, but you are blind to
> it. It does not exist in mine. If a program is the right solution, I'll
> write a program. But I might also compute a logarithm with a diode (what
> fraction of programmers would ever consider that alternative?).


A very small fraction. I've often advocated this kind of lateral
thinking to colleagues. I say to them, why write a complex program to
do logs when there are alternatives like a slide rule smeared with
some raspberry jam? I keep a number of these small one ****tion jars in
my top drawer, but none of my colleagues ever has any.  How
shortsighted is that?

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Regards
Alex McDonald