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| From | "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Could Forth be getting a bit of traction? |
| Date | 2015-09-08 19:46 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <msndv8$7as$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 6:48:05 PM UTC-7, bor...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thanks Marcel, I am starting work on my first real Forth > > application, I will see if I can get by without s/u/r. But Why? Why would depriving yourself of structures make programming easier? Why would depriving yourself of structures make your programs more readable and maintainable? Do you really want to accept the advice of a simpleton as the word of God? Having no structs in Forth doesn't make things easier for the users of Forh. It may, however, make it easier for the lazy implementors of Forth. > > it's a little bit of a stretching of the mind for me, > > because these days anytime I approach a problem, one of the > > first things I do is identifying and designing the > > structures (classes). > > All of my programs rely heavily structs --- the novice > package's data-structures obviously require structs to hold > the data --- I don't think that anybody can write a "real > Forth application" without structs. "Ms." Rather's assertion that Forth doesn't need structures (records) because different programs use different data arranged in different ways is mindless. One could say that Forth doesn't need strings for the same reason. Some can't grasp that different programs use strings that are different in length and that contain different characters. Similarly, different programs use structures that have different fields. The data layout doesn't have to be the same.
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