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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Trickier sorting |
| Date | 2013-06-18 08:03 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2013Jun18.100338@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
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Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> writes:
>On 6/17/2013 1:02 PM, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>...
>> So, B was stack based, used threaded code, had a single data type
>> consisting of a 'cell'. Sound familiar? The big noticeable
>> difference is that B looks much like C in terms of syntax. Forth
>> doesn't.
>
>Well, Forth is based on two stacks, does not necessarily use threaded
>code, and has quite a few data types, although the compiler doesn't
>enforce data type rules. I agree that Forth doesn't look at all like
>either B or C. So, not really much in common at all.
Actually, when you read how Unix and C started, and how Forth started,
they were surprisingly similar in the beginning (certainly surprising
when you look at how different they are today). Unix started with and
further evolved towards larger machines (with MMUs), while Forth
started with and evolved towards smaller machines. The division
between OS and language was there in Unix from the start (there were
also two people involved:-), whereas it was not present in Forth until
there were hosted Forths much later.
- anton
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