Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rod Pemberton Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: comp.lang.forth is THE PROBLEM Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:59:14 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: <20170516175914.42ef3c01@_> References: <3b9bcac7-4e63-465d-8b96-85adf9bd3764@googlegroups.com> <1KGdnQznGekGUY7EnZ2dnUU7-fvNnZ2d@supernews.com> <54efa37a-2564-447f-b2d7-efd2bf3f90d3@googlegroups.com> <58d4e310-9cf0-47f3-8580-bca9b3714863@googlegroups.com> <7cc32301-28bf-49c3-8ddb-43f5571588b7@googlegroups.com> <7d73a539-674b-4ca9-98c0-cd16a794c54b@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:59407 On Tue, 16 May 2017 12:01:29 -0700 (PDT) gavino himself wrote: > This is why I always talk about a forth powered PC!!!! Electricity powers PCs. Forth could control a PC. The usual problem with adoption of a different solution, e.g., switching from C to Forth in this case, is that the new solution must not only be better, but must be significantly superior in some critical aspect. I'm not sure that it's demonstrable that Forth is extremely better than C. Of course, C is reviled enough that we've seen numerous new languages over the last few decades. However, it still ranks at the top of programming lists, but is losing ground to newcomers: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Rod Pemberton -- "Well, many people are really f---ing stupid too. Should we just adopt all their standards?" - George Carlin