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Re: Teaching Scenarios [Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine]

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Am 30.05.2026 um 22:16 schrieb Anton Ertl:
> Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> writes:
>> On 5/26/2026 12:46 AM, Anton Ertl wrote:
>>> ... I have been teaching Forth beginners for three decades. ...
>>
>> Does your university offer a class on Forth?
> 
> I have had a course "Stack-based languages" from the late 1990s to
> 2024.  I taught Forth and Postscript.  Students did projects in Forth
> or Postscript.  In recent years it has had few students and most of
> them did projects in Forth.
> 
> We were tasked with changing the courses to 6 ECTS (credits);
> Stack-based Languages had 3 ECTS.  I decided to replace Stack-based
> Languages with a new course "Low-Level Languages", where I teach Forth
> and Rust to students.  I did this course the first time last semester.
> This course attracted a lot more students.  The students surprised me
> by often using neither language for the project, but instead, e.g.,
> C++ (which is also acceptable).
> 
>> https://www.cs.uaf.edu/~chappell/class/2023_spr/cs331/read/forth_quick.html
> 
> Looking at <https://www.cs.uaf.edu/~chappell/class/2026_spr/cs331/>,
> the course covers several programming languages (which explains the
> shortness of the introduction), but in 2026 the course no longer
> includes Forth.  Anyway, good to see that in 2023 there was at least
> one other course that taught Forth, and that course used Gforth.
> 
We are living in the times of agentic software management using LLMs.
Nevertheless I am surprised to read that Rust and C++ have become
low-level languages. Times are achanging....

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  Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-25 18:10 +0000
    Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-26 15:53 +1000
      Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-26 07:46 +0000
        Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-27 00:52 +1000
          Teaching Scenarios [Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine] Buzz McCool <buzz_mccool@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-26 08:52 -0700
            Re: Teaching Scenarios [Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine] dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-28 21:03 +1000
            Re: Teaching Scenarios [Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-30 20:16 +0000
              Re: Teaching Scenarios [Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine] minforth <minforth@gmx.net> - 2026-05-31 11:02 +0200
                Re: Teaching Scenarios [Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-31 14:13 +0000
          Division (was: Forth for a balanced ternary machine) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-30 18:23 +0000
            Re: Division dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-05-31 12:49 +1000
              Re: Division anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-05-31 14:20 +0000
                Re: Division dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-01 12:47 +1000
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                Re: arithmetic shift right dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-06-01 18:18 +1000
    Re: Forth for a balanced ternary machine Matthias Koch <m.cook@gmx.net> - 2026-05-28 13:36 +0200

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