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From: Rod Pemberton <NoHaveNotOne@bcczxcfre.cmm>
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Subject: Re: Was just wondering when people started using C to write forth languages and not assembly?
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:14:06 -0400
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On Thu, 19 May 2016 01:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
pahihu <pahihu@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Charles Moore has stated
> > that he considered 60 to 63 primitives to be the essence of Forth,
> > but I've never found out as to which.  =20
>=20
> See Glen Haydon's "Levels of Forth"
> http://www.forth.org/literature/forthlev.html

I come up with a count of 38 for Glen Haydon's article.  The article
says that 45 are in the list and Chuck Moore used 63.

> and in Vierte Dimension 3/87 "FORTH - eine pers=F6nliche Sprache"
> (the same list as in Haydon's Level 0).
>=20

I come up with a count of 46 for the Vierte Dimension article.

So, I'm still not sure which are the 63 that Chuck Moore used.


The Vierte Dimension 3/87 issue is here:
https://www.forth-ev.de/filemgmt/visit.php?lid=3D117

An archive of Vierte Dimension is here:
https://www.forth-ev.de/filemgmt/viewcat.php?op=3D&cid=3D1

Note the website and magazine are in German.


Rod Pemberton