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Re: I am afriad

From Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: I am afriad
Date 2016-06-21 07:04 +0300
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On 21/06/2016 06:23, Chris Curl wrote:

> In many other languages, you can write the top level functions first, with 
> stubs for the next level down. You can keep going that way until you have
> filled in all the supporting code. In my job where they pay me really good
> money to design and write programs every day, we use C++ and C# primarily, 
> and that is how we write our programs.

I generally write that way in 8th (Forth/C++/whatever), as I find it
more flexible.  I don't understand why you think Forth would be any
different in this regard:

\ a stub:
: dosomething ;

\ another stub:
: do-something-else ;

\ top-level:

: main
  dosomething
  do-something-else
  bye ;

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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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