Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right?

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Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> writes Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right?

> On 05/09/2013 03:23 AM, WJ wrote:
>> WJ wrote:
>>  All they can easily do is simple
>> arithmetic and possibly bubble-sorts.
[..]

> In Reva Forth:
>
> needs date/calendar
> ~date
> today  gregorian>fixed
> 8 15 2013 gregorian>fixed -
> .
>   ===>98

> Doesn't seem Reva can only do "arithmetic and bubble-sorts", though it 
> can do those as well...

The challenge was to calculate how many days away your birthday is.

FORTH> needs dates
Creating --- Dates by Baden      Version 1.23 ---
Try: date-test -- verify this package ok

FORTH> 26 1 2014 jday  date jday  - . 262  ok

I wish to have Mentifex's computer, in case you want to send a present.

-marcel

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    Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-05-01 14:32 -0700
  Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-08 04:55 +0000
    Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 09:33 -0700
    Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-09 00:23 +0000
      Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 06:05 +0300
        Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2013-05-09 09:28 +0200
          Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-05-09 22:07 +0200
      Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-05-09 17:11 +0000
      Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-05-11 20:17 +0200
        Re: ok since forth is general purpose, you can get work doen right? gavino_himself <visploveslisp@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 13:36 -0700

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