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Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for....

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On Jun 26, 6:23 am, Mark Wills <markrobertwi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2:08 pm, John Passaniti <john.passan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:26:36 AM UTC-4, Mark Wills wrote:
> > > Then you'll be angry that you missed out on this for so many years!
>
> > I kind of doubt it.
>
> > I'm all for gavino learning Forth and encourage him to continue.  But as we've seen in his messages, his work is likely centered on system administration and operations.  Forth is a great language... for embedded systems.  Not so much for the kind of work he does.
>
> > He will invariably be told by someone that Forth would be an awesome spectacular language for system administration and operations work... once he builds up a library of routines to do what he wants.  It's underwear gnome economics applied to programming languages:
>
> > 1, Learn Forth.
> > 3. Use as system administration and operations language.
>
> Not at all. There's a life after work, you know. I wasn't assuming
> that he wants to use Forth for work. As you say, it's not really
> suitable as an administration language. I'm assuming he's simply
> interested in learning a programming language, rather than a scripting
> language. Of course, Forth is a good candidate for writing DSLs, so
> Forth could be used as the back-bone of a Gavino administration
> language, written around his exact requirements.
>
> Don't be so negative!
>
> >It's underwear gnome economics applied to programming languages:
>
> I have absolutely no idea what that means.

ok I am back on ch2 and reading more slowly.
http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf2/sf2.html
so far so good

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