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Re: Starting Forth 5.

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On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 21:07:12 -0400, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

> [snip on-topic FORTH code for once...]
...

>>> If you want it done correctly, a modern high-level
>>> language like Ruby must be used.
>>
>> The last comparison I made showed your Ruby code to be about 1000 times
>> slower than the Forth code (also your Ruby code was bugged). You keep
>> missing these important and obvious points. Why?
>>
>> You may want to understand your apparently uncontrollable fascination
>> with and time spent on a topic that you say you dislike so much. There
>> are professionals that can help you.
>>
> There are a great many people in this group who seem to compulsively  
> respond to this guy in spite of the fact that he continues to post the  
> same sort of denigration of Forth over an over again.  No matter how  
> many people respond to him, he continues to not respond to any of the  
> points they raise and post more of the same in reply.
>
> Why do people keep responding to him?  Why do I bother to point out any  
> of this?
>

Wow, that's truly ironic...

Didn't I ask the same two things about you posting about non-Forth
microprocessors? (rhetorical)

They respond to him because he *actually* posts Forth code, unlike
you...  Did you post any prior to your c.l.f. hiatus?  I think the
answer to that is a "No" too.  Your earlier posts seem to be purely
microprocessor related also.

The only other people to post Forth code lately are Lauri and gavino.
Lauri is new so they haven't come to hate her yet.  Familiarity breeds
contempt, more so when some people are naturally contemptuous of others...
Yes, the other who posted Forth was gavino.  Are you shocked?  Were you?

This is supposed to be a Forth newsgroup.  There are a few here who
still believe that's true...  They seem to be Marcel and Albert.
They're the *only* ones who've been on-topic over the past year or so.

Unfortunately, those who believe this is a Forth newsgroup instead
of alt.etc, have yet to recognize that this is just a place where
the other long-term "regulars" use Forth topicality as an excuse
to shoo away or silence those they don't want to converse with, so
they can continue discuss other off-topic stuff amongst themselves,
like non-Forth microprocessors (rickman, Bernd), like COBOL or scaring
people in elevators (Alex), like China or history (Bernd, Hugh), like
Testra or MFX or spanish food (Hugh), like Ocaml (Paul R., Mark, Andrew),
like safety standards and touch screens (Paul B.), like artificial
intelligence (Arthur), like advertising a commercial Forth compiler
(Stephen), like totally random shit (Roelf) etc.  There is no point
in mentioning Hohensee or Passaniti since they haven't posted in a while.
AFAICT, it's only acceptable to discuss C if it involves gForth with
Bernd or Anton, even if it's on the exact same topics others have
attempted to discuss prior, e.g., C's malloc(), but not mentioning
gForth in particular...  See, Ms. Rather never complains about Anton
and Bernd discussing C in-depth as long as they casually mention gForth
in passing, so the rest of the Forth clique doesn't complain either
when they do (Andrew, Alex, Mark, et. al.).

Do you understand now?  No?  Well, wait a while and at some point
Ms. Rather will politely hint that you should STFU.  Watch for it.


Rod Pemberton

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Starting Forth 5. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-23 21:41 +0000
  Re: Starting Forth 5. Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 07:31 -0400
    Re: Starting Forth 5. mhx@iae.nl - 2013-09-24 10:29 -0700
    Re: Starting Forth 5. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 21:07 -0400
      Re: Starting Forth 5. mhx@iae.nl - 2013-09-24 21:33 -0700
        Re: Starting Forth 5. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-25 09:20 +0000
      Re: Starting Forth 5. "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@nohavenotit.com> - 2013-09-25 02:41 -0400
      Re: Starting Forth 5. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-25 09:15 +0000
        Re: Starting Forth 5. rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-09-25 16:35 -0400
  Re: Starting Forth 5. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-24 18:21 +0000
    Re: Starting Forth 5. "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2013-09-24 19:43 +0100

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