Re: FORTH as a mindset rather than a language

From	"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: FORTH as a mindset rather than a language
Date	2017-02-15 11:53 +1100
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hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, February 11, 2017 at 12:54:20 PM UTC-7, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > ...how I think about problems is strongly influenced by my contact with Forth.
>
> When I worked as a C programmer, I was told that I wrote C as if I were writing Forth
> --- this was meant as an insult --- the guy who said this was primarily referring to my
> use of RETURN in the middle of a function.

Writing Forth as if it were Forth also receives complaint.  Forth must contend with
criticism from two fronts - within and without.  Forth had a mindset which was Stoic
but somewhere along the way it changed into permissiveness - 'if you don't like it,
then change it'.

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FORTH as a mindset rather than a language Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-11 13:53 -0600
  Re: FORTH as a mindset rather than a language hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-11 21:43 -0800
    Re: FORTH as a mindset rather than a language "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-15 11:53 +1100

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