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Re: Forth as a polarising language

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Forth as a polarising language
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Date 2012-09-09 18:24 -0700
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"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
> Hmm, what kind of volume are you talking about? These tiny devices are
> produced in amazing quantities compared with PCs (which typically
> include dozens of the low-level devices already). The vast, vast
> majority of CPUs are in embedded devices of some sort.

Sure, there are a lot of those devices but the number of people writing
code for them is relatively small, it seems to me, at least going by
Craigslist ads and the like.  If the device has just 1k of code, it's
probably not going to keep many programmers busy.  I agree that a lot of
the programming is done by the hardware engineers.  In that case they're
splitting programming with other duties, so that's even fewer
full-time-equivalent programmers.  Finally, since the programs and
processors are small, it's an area that calls for very good low-level
optimization and debugging skills, but is less demanding in topics that
mostly affect bigger systems.  So, that may also explain why software
specialists tend to look at these things differently.

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