Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Paul E. Bennett" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Followup-To: comp.lang.forth Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:00:22 +0000 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <8ad0faac-ac88-4f05-a73e-34123c207efa@r10g2000pbd.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net OOJ/uK46Jr7BtUOv3sMQzwoGsa7EDXk/QtNrWjv50R60XenWiu7AajOQIy1tZQbC9G Cancel-Lock: sha1:/lf8B3WdxNpN5t0/Rjj++ohHDxk= Mail-Copies-To: Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:17091 Hugh Aguilar wrote: > On Nov 5, 12:48 am, "Paul E. Bennett" > wrote: >> I am certain that I have seen code from Elizabeth on here before. Then I >> have been on this ng a long time. > > Please provide a link. As just one would prove your statement wrong, this link should help. It was a thread that you also took part in (about arrays). > I've never seen any code from E.R. on comp.lang.forth. Her two books > are also very light on code. Actually, all of the Forth Inc. books are > light on code --- I've never seen an implementation of FIELD for > example --- because of this, there are a lot of people in the world > who will say dismissively, "Forth is just a toy language like QBasic; > it doesn't support structs, which are the basis of all data > structures." Trying to tell the person that it is possible for him to > implement FIELD himself is an uphill battle --- the guy has already > dismissed Forth and adopted C --- there are a lot of programmers like > this who spent a few weeks reading "Starting Forth" and learning Forth > back in the 1980s, and who have never touched Forth since that time. > The book does have cute cartoons though --- it was just the right > speed for me when I was 18 and my experience primarily involved line- > number BASIC, and a smattering of Pascal and 6502 assembly-language > (if I hadn't already had a Pascal class in H.S. though, I would never > have thought of structs (records) on my own). -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett............... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************