Re: The Secret of a Successful Programming Language?

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject	Re: The Secret of a Successful Programming Language?
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Date	2012-07-28 21:59 -0700
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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> Forth was (and sometimes still is) its own OS, and all the OS
> capabilities were certainly included. But it was not designed as a
> general-purpose OS in the sense that Unix was (i.e., run any programs
> written in any language). 

Until the 1990's or so, C was the main viable language to write anything
substantial in under Unix (languages like awk or perl were used for
small scripts).  I'd say Unix was much better set up than a Forth OS to
handle multiple programs running independently of each other
(i.e. preemptive multitasking with protected processes in separate
address spaces).  That was at least as big a difference as Forth vs. C.

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