Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: jonesforth: taking up the challenge References: <51ae2e6d$0$26867$e4fe514c@dreader37.news.xs4all.nl> <85ppvx2gxg.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <2013Jun8.162809@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <85fvws2yrp.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <51c1829b$0$6079$e4fe514c@dreader36.news.xs4all.nl> From: Lars Brinkhoff Organization: nocrew Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:27:40 +0200 Message-ID: <85vc5av1ib.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZY9um+Ox2qLaGbworo5cCn4XvMU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.229.87.73 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=V:Oa]kJgDb9H=^0YSB=nbEKnk;TB9ZjHPY?C3@ON7A^J=915:[KId_d;k;?ecS2QjHQi^7HL>PhDc7Db5A@RQ[nH6m7? X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:23793 albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes: > > However: TELL instead of TYPE, what's up with that? > TYPE is actually a terrible ambiguous choice. If you look up the > word in the Dragon book (about compilers) you will not see the Forth > meaning, even in mentionning. I'm not so much questioning the choise of word. If there were no previous history, TELL would be fine with me. I'm wondering, why replace this archetypical Forth word at all? (I guess you provided a possible answer.) Is there any other Forth using TELL? As to why "TYPE", according to "Forth - The Early Years" the word was introduced around 1965. I those times there were things like teletypes, so I would speculate it made a lot of sense then.