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Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
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Subject Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth
Date 2017-01-07 12:08 +1100
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Steve Graham wrote:
> http://prog21.dadgum.com/8.html

He also says:

"I've finally decided that the whole Forth concept is too minimal in the modern world"

https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/an-interview-with-game-developer-james-hague/

Either he hasn't looked at ANS/200x and the mega applications it was intended
to facilitate - or he's seen the long list of excuses for why it hasn't.

I agree with him with the exception there will always be a place for a language
that's posited somewhere between assembler and the high-level library-based
systems needed to create mega apps.  In Forth it's possible to get a small app
up and running in less time than it takes a C programmer to plan his header files.
Maybe that's exaggerating (or not) but Forth isn't for endlessly planning and
future-proofing, it's getting the job done and out the door.  It doesn't need to
be Forth - any small language with few barriers (standards) and self-reliant
programmers will do.  Forth (read committees) need to be careful it doesn't
lose the only advantage and reason for existence it had.

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Just saw this - Description of Forth Steve Graham <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 09:11 -0800
  Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth november.nihal@gmail.com - 2017-01-05 12:52 -0800
  Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-07 12:08 +1100
    Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 18:09 -0800
      Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-08 11:47 +1100
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 17:59 -0800
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-07 18:23 -0800
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-07 18:51 -1000
          Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-08 17:02 -0800
          Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-10 10:38 +1100
            Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-09 17:35 -0800
              Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-09 18:32 -1000
                Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-01-10 04:17 -0600
                Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-10 13:41 +0000
                Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-01-10 08:05 -0600
            Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-10 13:50 +0000
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-08 08:58 +0000
    Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-06 18:58 -0800
      Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth november.nihal@gmail.com - 2017-01-08 14:30 -0800
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-08 21:15 -0800
    Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth november.nihal@gmail.com - 2017-01-08 14:24 -0800

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