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Re: Where to find papers on Forth

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Eduardo Costa wrote:

> I wonder where people are publishing their papers on Forth.

People publish at JFAR (not the much more popular foot&ankle research JFAR 
;-):

http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/jfar/institute.html

The EuroForth conferences also publish papers (often though, people only 
submit slides for their presentations).

http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/

> (2) Forth programs are safe. A Forth program seldom crashes due to obscure
> bugs. Forth compilers almost never have bugs. I thought a lot about this
> subject. My conclusion is that Forth programs crash so easily, that
> developers detect bugs during the test phase, and fix them. Then we have
> an oxymoron: Forth programs never crashes because they crash so easily.

Yes, we call that the "crash early, crash often" development style.  When 
the program is actually used, we have a "crash never" mentality.  A crash at 
the user is simply unacceptable.  A crash during development is acceptable, 
but it must be fixed.

Programming is mostly debugging, i.e. finding out why it doesn't work.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Where to find papers on Forth Eduardo Costa <edu500ac@gmail.com> - 2013-03-13 03:24 -0700
  Re: Where to find papers on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-03-13 13:09 +0100
    Re: Where to find papers on Forth Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-03-13 09:50 -0700
    Re: Where to find papers on Forth Eduardo Costa <edu500ac@gmail.com> - 2013-03-14 08:04 -0700
      Re: Where to find papers on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-03-14 17:30 +0100

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