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From: Alexander Skobelev <al.skobelev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FORTH on the Advanced Placement Computer Science !
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 08:03:33 +0300
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"WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> writes:

> Alexander Skobelev wrote:
>
>> > I don't think S" is the right mechanism to handle strings longer than
>> > 256 bytes. Very few applications actually require such long strings,
>> > particularly in definitions. The few string-intensive applications
>> > I've been involved with have developed application-specific data
>> > structures for the long strings.
>> 
>> Perhaps it's so. But how somebody has told about multiple inheritance: it
>> is rarely needed, but sometimes it is really needed. I think this is the
>> same case here.
>> 
>> "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
>> tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
>> veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea
>> commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate
>> velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint
>> occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt
>> mollit anim id est laborum."
>> 
>> What is the right way to put this text in a program on Forth? 
>
> Gauche Scheme:
> [ … ]

Dear WJ, thank you for pointing to Gauche Scheme which, I suppose, is
definitely a great script interpreter. I give you promise that one day
I'll look at it, even though I prefer Common Lisp to Scheme and the not
garbage collected languages to the garbage collected ones. Right now, I
would like to discuss Forth, that definitly has its shortcomings, but
also it has something that attracts me irresistibly.