Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alexander Skobelev Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Go Forth And Prosper Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 20:35:43 +0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <7ecf883f-c724-442c-b1d4-d0756a54f267@googlegroups.com> <18e3a2ff-b806-4d4d-aba7-a6730b7366eb@googlegroups.com> <7583a558-507e-438b-994d-55b203cc47e5@googlegroups.com> <0048bb3e-f5d8-4c80-96c0-4bbb7dae1f61@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9b4c71686eeab47886c92032e5796e57"; logging-data="29494"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX180MX1gdGKK2hNnkchoZNEi" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZPOSDYPymYMy30k3NNdsXvuA59I= sha1:jNUI6932ieZZ2EZ8PI2fbOG8AcQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:30647 "M. Simon" writes: > On Saturday, May 24, 2014 7:40:01 AM UTC, Julian Fondren wrote: > > > Because the difference between a dead and a living language is that in > > one you have to make your money by selling people products written in > > the language, or otherwise by actually using the language, whereas in > > the other you can just ask for money and get it. > > > > -- Julian > > The whole point of doing hardware is to have the tools to do > projects. In fact I'm doing just that and will write them up as I > complete them. Have I mentioned that the LPC812 makes a neat little > I2C peripheral? And if you need a lot of smarts the LPC1114 is even > better. We currently support both. We'd like to be an overnight > success. But we don't have to be. We will keep making boards until > something strikes the markets fancy. Because my goal is to make Forth > the premier real time language. Perhaps there will be more reasoning behind doing hardware if you also provide the high-level API for I/O and all the peripherals you are offering.