Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Make Forth Small Again! Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:42:08 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 26 Message-ID: <20170321164208.70844c64@_> References: <563f58e3-02b2-481f-b61a-d76f1fdd4833@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ZTD62cW/Uw8bymX5ok+0NA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:56054 On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:12:07 -0700 (PDT) hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: > With my Straight Forth design, I am getting rid of a lot of cruft. I > don't have DO loops anymore, for example. So, small is beautiful! LOL. Do you really expect to execute existing Forth code without a DO loop? Let's see. Which Forth's have DO loop? ANS 94: Yes. Forth 83: Yes. Forth 79: Yes. fig-Forth: Yes. Forth 70: Yes. Do you intend to recode every Forth app that Straight Forth executes? Rod Pemberton -- All it takes for humanity to conquer the world's toughest problems is to hope, to believe, to share, and to do, in cooperation.