Re: The hardest Euler problem

Jonah Thomas wrote:
> cac <cac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> My Forth is very rusty; I haven't written
>> anything significant in Forth since about '83. However, it is a
>> favorite of mine, and I have recently started to work with it again.
> 
> If you would, you could provide a data point for an argument in another
> thread.
> 
> As you remember it, what happened that got you to stop using Forth
> significantly around 1983?

Got laid off... My next position was ****ting existing FORTRAN code to
those newfangled IBM PC's, so my Forth expertise went by the wayside.
 From there off into UNIX on workstations. I made a made a brief
reappearance in Forth in the late 90's, helping put a partial TCP
stack into a sensor system. I have championed Forth at various times
for various projects, but was never able to overcome institutional
inertia.

For a long time I kept tinkering with some ideas about how to fix what
I perceived as the major failings of Forth, but couldn't get the
design to my liking. Then I discovered that someone had succeeded
bang on in doing what I thought was needed in StrongFORTH.

-- Charles