Re: In Forth, is it valid or safe to use the value of 'I' after LOOP?

From	"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: In Forth, is it valid or safe to use the value of 'I' after LOOP?
Date	2012-03-15 04:28 -0400
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"Hugh Aguilar" <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> [...]
> By comparison, Rod is writing a Forth interpreter in C
> for a modern desktop computer.

No, it should work for any computer that can compile ANSI C.  That includes
many non-modern desktop computers, mainframes, minicomputers, etc.  I said
"should" because although I'm good with C, one can't entirely guarantee C
language portability to ancient and obscure platforms which may implement C
differently than most modern platforms.

> That just makes the Forth community look foolish.
>

I don't follow this logic.  If I was supposed to, you failed.  Please try to
succeed again.

> Rod doesn't have any users

So?  Who has users while their program is in development?  Rod doesn't have
anyone paying him either.  That's just as irrelevant.

> and never will ---

You can't predict the future.  I may or may not release it.  I haven't
decided yet.

> nobody thinks that this
> is a positive contribution

Who exactly is "nobody"?  You're the only one who I recall has complained
about my interpreter.  Are you a multiple personality?  How many you got in
there?  To use "nobody" implies it's getting crowded in there.  You had to
take a poll ...

As I've told you before, if I only did what other people thought were good
ideas, I'd never have done much of anything in my life and I'd have only
done things that weren't good ideas.  Most people aren't bright enough to
recognize good ideas or give them.

> --- his goals are:

BZZT!  Wrong answers.

> (1) to prove that C is the "god language" that
> other languages are written in

That's not my goal.  However, I don't have to prove that.  From my
perspective, that's 100% true.  I've cited numerous other languages that
are, both here and in other newsgroups.  Currently, an ITC Forth is being
written in C by me.  So, the "godly" status of C is maintained, so far ...
Of course, if you were really concerned about that, you could attempt to
explain your memory allocation words and try to get me to attempt to
implement them in order to prove me wrong ...

> (2) to prove that Forth is just a toy interpreter
> that isn't capable of application-programming

That's not my goal.  My Forth is fig-Forth based and ITC.  So, it has many
of the limitations of those ancient "technologies".  By saying my Forth
isn't capable of application-programming, you're also saying all old
fig-Forths were incapable ...  There has been almost twenty-five years of
Forth development since then.  If that development hasn't proven Forth is
not just a toy language, nothing will.

> (3) to prove that he is an expert at Forth,
> without having ever written a Forth program

(Lol!)  I'm not interested in programming Forth, although I will do as much
as I have to do to implement my interpreter.  Hopefully, I'll have enough
time to ensure most of it is not totally inelegant.  So far, I only see
weakness in the Forth language.  The "epiphany" of Forth hasn't happened to
me.  I'm really only interested in completing my interpreter to get back to
my other projects: C compilers, x86 assembler, x86 emulator, operating
system, other parsers, etc.  So, the more you harass me and slow me down the
longer I get to pester you with posts you don't like.

> To a large extent, Rod is just a wanna-be Anton Ertl.

Ouch!  Good insult.

But, you already knew that I've made some criticisms of Anton.

> His C-based Forth interpreter was designed with essentially
> the same goals as Gforth.

I seriously doubt that ...  I told you previously, it started as
the backend of a C parser.

> I think that Anton Ertl purposely crippled Gforth so
> that it would *not* be competitive with SwiftForth,

I seriously doubt that too ...  GCC has been in development for
roughly two decades and still can't come close to generating superb
x86 assembly, as compared to other x86 C compilers.  I see that as
a pure failure of the FSF ideology.  It does work on many platforms
though and is open source ...

> [...] in order to avoid Elizabeth Rather's wrath [...]

Why would he care about her wrath exactly?  What power does she
posses that he would he fear?  (strong sarcasm)

> SwiftForth doesn't do any optimization, and yet
> Gforth succeeds in being *slower* than SwiftForth
> --- Gforth is a remarkably crippled system! --- but at
> least Gforth doesn't have any major bugs, which is
> more than can be said about SwiftForth.

Examples?  That's what I need, for real.

> [... irrational ranting ...]
> That is why everybody in the world, including rank
> novices, believe that they can write their own Forth [...]

I've come quite a long way in implementing my interpreter.  I think "rank
novice" should be clarified as to *what* the person is supposedly a novice,
i.e., programming in general, or specifically Forth, etc.

> [...] that is equal or better than SwiftForth.

Mine is just a very basic Forth.  Why does that irk you?  Do you have "I
hate fig-Forth" flags in the back window of your taxi?  Do you sing "Die,
die, die my fig-Forth ..." all day long?  It'd be the same if I coded it in
assembly, with one exception: you can compile ANSI C on other platforms ...

> I'm writing Straight Forth now, primarily motivated by
> frustration at SwiftForth and Gforth, which are just not
> up to snuff. I'm not in that legion mentioned above though.
> I know what I'm doing! I've done this before but it was
> proprietary --- now I'm doing the same but making it
> publicly available, and targeting mainstream processors
> (the PIC24, PIC32, and ARM, some or all) rather than
> some weird proprietary Forth engine that nobody will
> ever use.

Interpreted?

> I think that the reason why E.R. [...]

Get over it.


Rod Pemberton

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