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Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge

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Albert van der Horst wrote:
> You explain why I want to redo the Jones effort based on ISO.  I'm
> going to leave out DO .. LOOP for pedogagical reasons

But it wouldn't really be a Standard Forth then, would it?

> > I have seen plenty of different file endings for Forth source
> > code, but I haven't seen .fas before.
> As you will notice on closer examination it is no forth source but
> fasm source.

Oh, sorry.

> > Is your return stack large too?
> > : (words)   ?dup if dup >lfa @ recurse id. then ;
> > : words   context @ (words) ;
>
> The MS-DOS version could have problems.  I have some euler problems
> where stacks can grow to Megabytes, so I now have the habit to keep
> data on the data stack.

Are you saying that your return stack is significantly smaller than
the data stack?  In my mind, with some >R 2>R N>R going on in a
program, the stacks could plausibly require about the same amount of
memory.  Highly application-specific, of course.

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Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-19 10:06 +0000
  Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2013-06-19 12:27 +0200
    Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-19 10:44 +0000
      Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2013-07-05 07:41 +0200
        Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-05 14:45 +0000
        Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-07-05 09:58 -0500
        Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-12 02:06 +0000
          Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-11 18:36 -1000
            Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-12 17:36 +0000
              Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-07-12 07:59 -1000
                Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-07-12 11:23 -0700
                Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-07-12 21:10 +0200
              Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotq.cpm> - 2013-07-13 06:19 -0400

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