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Re: is forth bad for string and file operations? anyone know forth and use it rather than awk bash tcl?

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jc <john.comeau@gmail.com> writes:
>another suggestion would be to look at Postscript. it's RPN like Forth
>but has a lot more built in for string and stream operations. last I
>looked, though, ghostscript is a monstrously large open-source
>implementation.

The problem with Postscript is that it was never refined into a
language for writing applications.  The more you program in it, the
more you notice the rough edges.

One thing that I found particularly irritating is the error handling:
It produces errors for many different reasons, but has not way to
catch an error, deal with it, and continue with the program.

- anton
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