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Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail)

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Albert van der Horst wrote:

> In article <m5dufq$vcm$1@dont-email.me>, WJ <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>WJ wrote:
>>
>>
>>I apologize creating a challenge that's far too easy.
>>This one is a bit harder.
> 
> Apparently the challenge is to reconstruct a specification
> from an undocumented program in a non-Forth language.
> That is a far greater challenge then writing a Forth program
> would, but I will not waste my time with it.

It's just by-word and prints a sorted histogram.

The real question is: After all, WJ promotes Java in his troll test cases, 
and then writes Scheme programs to challenge us Forthers.  Of couse, Scheme 
is a much better language than Java: Scheme is interactive, Scheme allows 
metaprogramming, and Scheme has a very simple, prefix syntax (with 
parenthesis), which makes parsing Scheme easy.  Just as Forth has a simple, 
postfix syntax (without parenthesis), which is even simpler to parse.  
Scheme requires no boilerplate, just like Forth.

Actually, Lisp was one of the inspirations which led to Forth, and several 
Forth-like programming languages like PostScript or Factor are back in the 
functional programming realm; i.e. Forth is a not too close relative to 
Scheme.  While Java is a member of that ugly, warty, Algol family.

Dear WJ: You had your challenge, and you lost.  Now shut up.  We are bored 
by your easy challenges.  Of course, the first by-character challenge was 
particularly easy, because to solve it, you only had to use core words, 
nothing more.  No libraries (WJ's example uses a library), no fancy non-core 
words; just the words available on every tiny embedded controller running 
Forth.  Controllers which certainly can't run Scheme, or even Java!

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-29 20:13 +0000
  Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2014-11-29 17:15 -0500
  Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2014-11-29 14:20 -0800
  Re: Epic failure awegel@arcor.de (Alexander Wegel) - 2014-11-29 23:35 +0100
  Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-11-30 00:31 +0100
  Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-11-29 17:41 -0800
    Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) mhx@iae.nl - 2014-11-30 00:04 -0800
      Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) mhx@iae.nl - 2014-11-30 00:09 -0800
        Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-11-30 17:22 +0100
  Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-11-30 02:13 +0000
    Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-11-29 18:55 -0800
    Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-11-30 16:50 +0000
      Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-12-01 01:22 +0100
        Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2014-12-02 06:00 +0100
          Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2014-12-02 06:37 +0100
            Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-12-02 12:28 +0000
            Re: Epic failure Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-12-02 18:03 -0800
        Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 10:10 -0800
          Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 16:23 -0500
            Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-05 13:46 -0800
    Re: Epic failure (was Epic Fail) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-01 07:54 +0000
      Re: Epic failure awegel@arcor.de (Alexander Wegel) - 2014-12-01 14:02 +0100
        Re: Epic failure hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2014-12-01 15:04 -0800
          Re: Epic failure awegel@arcor.de (Alexander Wegel) - 2014-12-02 04:54 +0100

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