Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: LLVM and Forth Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 05:23:26 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 20 Message-ID: <20170406052326.24bb3082@_> References: <21153661-abf5-4958-82c7-e3c442b45cb9@googlegroups.com> <065e774c-c5fb-4e68-9489-00b5357142d6@googlegroups.com> <72a319fa-8035-4a17-a5a2-2b2884a57b15@googlegroups.com> <20170405004435.4706b792@_> 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:56774 On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 00:00:43 -0700 (PDT) minforth@arcor.de wrote: > So what the heck? Your contrived examples violate basic software > engineering rules to not write obscure code. My examples? Most were elsewhere in the thread, perhaps by Krishna. > C and Assembler are well suited to shoot one's own foot. Do they program robots in C or Assembly? They might use Forth for it's "real-time" capability ... So, you might be able to shoot your own foot, literally, with Forth, by using a robot. 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.