Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.lang.forth > #26541

Re: Hacker News Forth link

From Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Hacker News Forth link
Date 2013-10-15 08:27 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <8761szaw1q.fsf@pestilenz.org> (permalink)
References <l3h7b4$td4$1@speranza.aioe.org>

Show all headers | View raw


steve <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> writes:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6542556

Interesting comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6544002

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

rwmj 1 day ago | link

As the author of jonesforth[1], I found Forth to be a great hack and
enormous fun to write. However as an actual language to implement
things, not so good. It's terribly difficult to write correct code when
you've got no bounds checking, only primitive memory management, no
types, and having to manage the stack. (Modern Forths fix these problems
to some extent.)

It's my understanding that most language research is on safety features,
type systems and so on, so I don't know how interesting Forth would be.

[1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So that's maybe the reason we haven't seen updates there?

Kind regards,

Christian

Back to comp.lang.forth | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Hacker News Forth link steve <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-14 16:49 +0000
  Re: Hacker News Forth link "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-14 17:22 -0700
  Re: Hacker News Forth link Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> - 2013-10-15 08:27 +0200
    Re: Hacker News Forth link albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-15 12:23 +0000
      Re: Hacker News Forth link Christian Kellermann <ckeen@pestilenz.org> - 2013-10-15 14:34 +0200
        Re: Hacker News Forth link albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-15 15:51 +0000
          Re: Hacker News Forth link Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-10-15 16:01 +0000
            Re: Hacker News Forth link albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-15 16:38 +0000
              Re: Hacker News Forth link Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-10-15 16:47 +0000

csiph-web