Re: I am afriad

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: I am afriad
Date	2016-06-20 22:58 -0400
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On 6/20/2016 10:23 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 7:03:58 PM UTC-7, Chris Curl wrote:
>> I have been a software developer for 30+ years. Trust me, I know how to
>> design and build very large scale programs.
>>
>> Some languages lend themselves well to a top-down programming style. Forth
>> does not seem to be a language that fits that model very well.
>>
>> Please elaborate how you can write the high level words first, followed by the
>> supporting words. Forth's whole paradigm is to continually extend the
>> vocabulary, creating higher and higher level words from the words that already
>> exist. That is a classic example of bottom up programming.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> You aren't missing anything --- you understand how Forth development works.
>
> Rickman is just a troll, pretending to be an expert and spouting idiotic advice --- he has never posted Forth code on c.l.f. --- I have seen no evidence to indicate that he knows any more about Forth programming than John Passaniti did (another infamous sycophant of Elizabeth Rather who pretended to be an expert and spouted idiotic advice).

Here's some code.

: decompose rot rot rot ;

tee hee hee

-- 

Rick C

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I am afriad endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-06-19 22:00 -0700
  Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 05:29 -0700
    Re: I am afriad "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-06-20 19:43 -0100
      Re: I am afriad endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 14:42 -0700
        Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 19:35 -0700
    Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 16:00 -0400
      Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 19:03 -0700
        Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 19:23 -0700
          Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:58 -0400
        Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:51 -0400
          Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 20:23 -0700
            Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 23:51 -0400
            Re: I am afriad Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 07:04 +0300
              Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 05:33 -0700
                Re: I am afriad Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 16:05 +0300
                Re: I am afriad anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-06-21 13:30 +0000
            Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 21:10 -0700
            Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 21:16 -0700
              Re: I am afriad Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 07:41 +0300
  Re: I am afriad Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 05:23 -0700
    Re: I am afriad Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-06-21 08:27 -0500
      Re: I am afriad Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 10:47 -0700
    Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-21 22:58 -0700
      Re: I am afriad Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 23:51 -0700
        Re: I am afriad Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 08:06 -0700
      Re: I am afriad Matthias Trute <matthias.trute@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 06:04 -0700

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