Re: Forth for education

From	"Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Forth for education
Date	2013-09-20 19:49 -0400
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:58:27 -0400, Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> wrote:

> on 20/09/2013 22:44:49, "Rod Pemberton" wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:17:15 -0400, <visualforth@rocketmail.com>
>> wrote:

>>> Meanwhile I learned that Forth is really good for education,
>>> because Forth is based on words and sentences, like human
>>> language is:
>>>
>>
>> Nearly identical statements to this comes up every few years.
>> Someone wants English as the basis of a programming language.
>
> A nit, but English wasn't mentioned.
>

Who said it was?  He said "human language".  I said people
wanting to program in English comes up every few years.
It comes up here, and comp.lang.misc, and a few times on
other newsgroups.  What is wrong with your comprehension
that you equated the two?

>> I don't understand why.  What knowledge is this claim based
>> upon?  It's clearly not based on computer science theory.
>> Is this intended for adults or children?
>>
>> Do you really think that similarity to English is a good reason
>> to use Forth?  English is full of ambiguities.  Ambiguities
>> in programming languages results in coding mistakes.  Coding
>> mistakes lead to financial and physical tragedies.
>
> German?
>

German, French, Chinese, whatever...  All spoken languages have
ambiguities.

>> Also, 75% of people are very verbal while the other 25% are visual.
>> Those adept in mathematics and science, i.e., presumed to be more
>> intelligent, tend to be more visual than those not adept.  That
>> means more symbolic or math like a language is, and the less like
>> spoken or written language, the better it is for them.
>>
>
> Now this is classic Rod. Completely made up.

Unfortunately, it's not made up.

> I'd like a few cites (that is, some quality links to research)

Well, if you're actually interested, you could go look for it
and learn something.

Every time someone asks me to cite, they disregard factual sources
I've cited, and then still claim the facts are false without them
ever citing anything of a factual nature to the contrary.  AFAICT,
asking to cite is just an asshole attempting to initiate a time
wasting, wild goose chase...  So, why don't we reverse the situation
and ask you to cite factual references to the contrary, first.

>> Spatial versus verbal ability goes towards the question: Who would
>> you want as a programmer for the processors used on the airplane
>> you flew on or bullet train you rode on?  When our cars become
>> "smart" cars, who do you want to code the safety features?  If the
>> car "intelligently" accelerates to avoid a mild collision but
>> introduces your car into a dangerous collision in progress, that's
>> not so good, is it?  If your car "intelligently" slows to ensure
>> a police car can pull you over, or to allow an ambulance to pass,
>> it's not so good if the non-smart, 80000 pound semi-trailer plows
>> into you because of the slowdown, is it?  So, do you want a guy of
>> average intellect writing that code?  Or, would you rather have the
>> guy who can correctly solve calculus and physics problems without
>> help from friends, family, and teachers?  Personally, I don't want
>> a dumb, or even average intellect guy coding code that's critical
>> to my personal safety.  I want the smartest bunch of guys you can
>> get.  Smart guys are capable of comprehending extremely complex
>> interactions that average guys will just never understand.  But, it
>> usually takes more than one of them to foresee all outcomes.  Do
>> you want your banking protected by code written by the company
>> with lowest bid?
>>
>
> And now we're way off piste. Ada. Used in safety critical systems,
> it is quite verbose, preferring English words over symbols.
...

> It sure does require a lot of verbal stuff for folks that you reckon
> are special coz they're spatial.

Go ahead and cite a source that proves that those who program in Ada
are more spatial than verbal as you've claimed ...

If you can't, STFU because you're wrong and you know it.


Rod Pemberton

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Forth for education visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-09-09 05:16 -0700
  Re: Forth for education Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2013-09-09 14:59 +0200
  Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-10 04:30 -0400
    Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-10 08:00 -1000
      Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-10 21:32 -0700
        Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-11 06:22 -0400
          Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-11 11:52 +0100
            Re: Forth for education Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2013-09-11 14:40 +0200
            Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-12 08:10 -0400
              Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-12 14:20 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-14 22:47 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-14 17:47 -1000
                Re: Forth for education stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-09-15 17:17 +0000
                Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-15 18:52 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-15 08:11 -1000
                Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-15 19:49 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-15 09:11 -1000
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-15 20:38 -0700
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-17 17:21 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Spam@ControlQ.com - 2013-09-17 18:01 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-17 14:31 -1000
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-17 22:20 -0700
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-17 22:23 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-09-18 21:56 +0200
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-18 02:57 -0500
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-18 09:41 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-18 15:35 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-18 21:02 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-18 15:42 -1000
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 15:48 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-20 11:26 -1000
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 20:35 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-19 13:45 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 16:18 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-20 14:06 -0700
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 17:08 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-20 12:00 -1000
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 20:10 -0400
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-20 23:23 -0700
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-21 13:09 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-23 01:55 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-23 11:40 -0500
                Re: Forth for education albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-23 17:45 +0000
                Re: Forth for education anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-23 18:47 +0000
                Re: Forth for education albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-24 17:00 +0000
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-23 14:51 -0500
                Re: Forth for education albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-24 16:50 +0000
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-24 12:02 -0500
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-21 05:21 -0500
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-21 14:15 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-21 08:52 -1000
                Re: Forth for education Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-21 14:23 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-22 04:53 -0500
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-22 19:00 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Whammo <sidciavic@gmail.com> - 2013-09-22 21:22 -0700
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-23 08:13 -1000
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 04:25 -0400
                Re: Forth for education visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-09-24 21:38 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Rob Sciuk <rob@controlq.com> - 2013-09-23 12:07 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-23 11:50 -0500
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 03:58 -0400
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-26 09:32 -0400
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-27 19:35 -0700
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-28 01:08 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-28 01:09 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 03:21 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-25 04:00 -0500
                Re: Forth for education Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 09:26 -0700
                Re: Forth for education visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-09-25 15:14 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-09-26 07:51 -0400
                Re: Forth for education visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-09-26 23:36 -0700
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 14:40 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-21 04:46 -0500
                Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-18 11:41 -0500
                Re: Forth for education Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-18 22:08 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-18 21:10 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-18 16:20 -1000
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 16:39 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-19 12:47 +0100
                Re: Forth for education Spam@ControlQ.com - 2013-09-19 11:30 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-19 16:48 +0100
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 16:51 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 23:17 +0100
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 15:19 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 03:31 -0400
                Re: Forth for education hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-18 21:12 -0700
                Re: Forth for education Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-19 01:02 -0700
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 15:26 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 17:09 -0400
                Re: Forth for education anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-09-19 11:28 +0000
                Re: Forth for education Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-18 18:30 -0700
                Re: Forth for education "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-19 22:51 +0000
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-15 14:06 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-09-15 19:56 -0700
              Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-12 08:03 -1000
          Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-11 08:59 -1000
            Re: Forth for education albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-12 10:48 +0000
              Re: Forth for education Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2013-09-12 08:17 -0500
        Re: Forth for education "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-13 12:48 +0000
          Re: Forth for education Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-13 06:33 -0700
          Re: Forth for education m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2013-09-13 07:25 -0700
          Re: Forth for education visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-09-13 21:20 -0700
          Re: Forth for education "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-15 09:04 +0000
            Re: Forth for education mhx@iae.nl - 2013-09-15 02:57 -0700
        Forth is not interactive "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-20 03:32 +0000
          Re: Forth is not interactive rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 01:20 -0400
          Re: Forth is not interactive Whammo <sidciavic@gmail.com> - 2013-09-19 23:41 -0700
            Re: Forth is not interactive "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-19 21:45 -1000
              Re: Forth is not interactive "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 04:09 -0400
                Re: Forth is not interactive "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-19 22:21 -1000
                WJ, aka William James [was Re: Forth is not interactive] "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-20 10:55 +0100
                Re: WJ, aka William James [was Re: Forth is not interactive] Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 06:17 -0700
                Re: WJ, aka William James [was Re: Forth is not interactive] rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 13:19 -0400
                Re: WJ, aka William James [was Re: Forth is not interactive] "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-20 19:45 +0100
                Re: WJ, aka William James [was Re: Forth is not interactive] rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 14:53 -0400
              Re: Forth is not interactive Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 01:20 -0700
          Re: Forth is not interactive Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 02:35 -0700
            Re: Forth is not interactive Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 02:39 -0700
          Re: Forth is not interactive mhx@iae.nl - 2013-09-21 04:05 -0700
          Re: Forth is not interactive albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-21 12:43 +0000
    Re: Forth for education stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-09-12 14:04 +0000
    Re: Forth for education "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-09-15 18:00 +1000
  Re: Forth for education voidvolker@gmail.com - 2013-09-14 10:41 -0700
    Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-14 10:53 -1000
  Re: Forth for education "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-19 22:33 +0000
    Re: Forth for education visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2013-09-19 17:17 -0700
      Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 17:44 -0400
        Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-20 23:58 +0100
          Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-20 19:49 -0400
            Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-21 20:33 +0100
              Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 03:49 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-25 09:42 +0100
                Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-26 09:39 -0400
                Re: Forth for education Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-09-26 10:40 -0400
                Re: Forth for education "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-26 08:51 -1000
        Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 22:50 -0400
          Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-21 14:27 -0400
            Re: Forth for education rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 15:33 -0400
              Re: Forth for education "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 03:37 -0400
        Re: Forth for education Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2013-09-21 10:02 +0100

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