Re: advantages of forth over other languages

Alex McDonald wrote:
> 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 portion jars in
> my top drawer, but none of my colleagues ever has any.  How
> shortsighted is that?
> 
Raspberry jam has too many little seeds which gets caught in the slide 
mechanisms.  I suggest jelly of some sort, or seedless jam.
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