Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: CASE mis-understanding? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:10:07 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <2b99e79c-6aef-402c-8667-322d3f24509e@googlegroups.com> <6bced7b9-403d-489d-bb7e-92b481249d1b@googlegroups.com> <1193tk4cxc2yq.1382doevi4pif.dlg@40tude.net> <49ef5d79-6888-4918-bdbf-3b0f0641fff9@googlegroups.com> <7a1bded8-8d24-4ea1-acf2-afaf912181a3@googlegroups.com> <302fb35a-1bfe-40fb-ae2e-b237a8db9bdd@googlegroups.com> <85iosew4gt.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29013 On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:48:28 -0400, WJ wrote: > hughaguilar96@yahoo.com wrote: >> [snipped - code from Swiftforth posted by Hugh in response] >> [to what Hugh thinks a C programmer would do in Forth that] >> [no sane Forth programmer would do. This was misunderstood] >> [by WJ. But, BP said elsewhere that he thinks Hugh is psycho] >> [which begs the question as to how Hugh recognized that code] >> [is insane Forth ...] > > Totally unreadable and unmaintainable. > > It doesn't get any worse than that. > > No real programmer would produce code like that unless you > held a gun to his head. > > If this is the Forth way, then Forth is to programming languages > what [excrement] is to food. > > However, I'm sure that the mindless worshippers of Forth will > defend this code. No they won't. Hugh cited that as an example of what *not* to do. Then, you post a month later saying it's a prime example of what *not* to do ... ROFL. If you had actually read Hugh's post instead of mindlessly replying to his posts, or if you hadn't snipped so much context, perhaps you would've recognized what he had said. I added bracketed [] comments above to clarify the issue. Rod Pemberton