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Re: High level language for writing Forth

From Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: High level language for writing Forth
Date 2017-04-19 23:22 -0500
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On 4/19/2017 9:34 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> That is why I started looking at Go so I could have a more modern
>> language to use in writing system software,
> 
> Go is something like a cleaned up and safer version of C.  I wouldn't
> call it modern.  It's fun to use if you like C, and the compiler is
> amazingly fast, which is nice.  But I'd still consider it a low level
> language.
> 
>> Since Go is somewhat similar to C it's not a stretch to rewrite
>> working C code in it.
> 
> Yes, it should be pretty straightforward if the C program doesn't do too
> much pointer and casting madness.
> 
>> So, does anyone in the group have experience with Go in writing a
>> Forth compiler or other major software or know of links to someone
>> else's work on using Go in writing compilers?
> 
> I think the more recent Go compilers are themselves written in Go.  It
> would certainly be easier than writing one in C.  It doesn't seem that
> Forthy to use it to implement Forth though.

It allowed them to simplify their code after moving away from C, a big 
enhancement of Go is handling multi-processes, cores, and  CPUs which C 
does not have a simple solution but Go has it built into the language.

> 
> I don't remember if you've given Python a try.  You might like it better
> than Go.
> 

I'm familiar with Python enough to be dangerous and it is easy to learn, 
has quite a few useful libraries so it's very useful for a lot of 
applications, that being said it's also slow and to write a Forth VM in 
it would make the Forth compiler way too slow.

Go does have pointers and casting but it's more secure for example you 
cannot do pointer arithmetic in Go and casting must be explicit but it's 
available. A handy thing of C but not available in Go is Unions. I will 
need to read more on pointers as they will be used in the VM so I need 
to see if that is a show stopper, if it is I will continue using C. In 
any case I will still want to learn Go as I will use it in many other 
projects, and I rather use it versus C++.

I bought a Hobby copy of 8th and was hoping to use it as a general 
overall tool to write software for use with my PCs, it has a lot of nice 
libraries, and data types but it doesn't have support for MySQL which 
kind of important to me in writing tools to deal with my websites, I 
originally thought it was to be included, but after the purchase I found 
it didn't have the capability, instead it has support for SQLlite which 
won't work for my web applications, I would need to spend an extra $250 
to buy a Pro Version which I can't afford at this point. Otherwise it 
would have been the choice general language for quickly generating 
applications.

Go has full support for MySQL, Network Services, Windowing systems, and 
other tools built into the system libraries so that is part of the 
reason to consider it as my main language for use with Windows/Linux 
applications.
-- 
Cecil - k5nwa

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High level language for writing Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-19 18:32 -0500
  Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-20 00:24 +0000
    Re: High level language for writing Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-19 14:42 -1000
      Re: High level language for writing Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-19 20:33 -0500
        Re: High level language for writing Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-19 16:21 -1000
        Re: High level language for writing Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-19 19:41 -0700
          Re: High level language for writing Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-19 23:28 -0500
      Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-20 17:02 +0000
        Re: High level language for writing Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-20 09:48 -1000
          Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 09:42 +0000
            Re: High level language for writing Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-21 09:07 -0500
              Re: High level language for writing Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-21 17:04 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-21 11:17 -0500
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-21 17:36 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 20:32 +0000
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-21 15:35 -0500
                Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 20:39 +0000
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-21 22:47 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 20:29 +0000
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-21 22:45 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-22 04:49 +0000
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                Re: High level language for writing Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 03:04 -0700
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-22 05:12 -0500
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                Re: High level language for writing Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 05:00 -0700
                Re: High level language for writing Forth lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 05:40 -0700
                Re: High level language for writing [unum] Forth Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2017-04-22 16:51 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing [unum] Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-22 13:36 -0700
                Re: High level language for writing [unum] Forth Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2017-04-22 22:59 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing [unum] Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-22 18:43 -0700
                Re: High level language for writing [unum] Forth Jan Coombs <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com> - 2017-04-23 09:33 +0100
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-22 11:23 -0500
                Re: High level language for writing Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-22 04:59 -0700
                Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 03:05 +0000
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                Re: High level language for writing Forth "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 03:08 +0000
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