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| From | "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: What about code blocks (not Forth blocks)? |
| Date | 2014-03-17 03:35 -0400 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:38:35 -0400, <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> wrote: > Does anybody else notice the lack of self-consistency in Bernd's > argument? Notice? What Bernd says? No... Well, not that I'd admit to, anyway. Of course, I have to ask if it was worth my time to read it. Was it? You're commenting on it, as if it was... > On one hand, he disparages my idea of quotations [...] > On the other hand, lots of languages use quotations or closures > as their primary feature, [...] It's a mutually exclusive argument. He preemptively attempted to exclude any and all possibilities that would allow for a viable solution being posted by you. > [Hugh apparently thinking we really care about his quotations?] > Hugh, ignore Bernd. Do want you want. Do what you think is best. Do what you think works best. Etc. > Bernd should really stop calling my stuff "nested functions." Why? Why do you _care_ what *he* calls *your* stuff? ... Everyone else around here seems to be a non-caring sociopath. > Mine are anonymous, [...] Yeah! What ... ? Why? Seriously, I've asked the same thing about C's new anonymous objects. The answer to that question seems to be infinite silence. Once the code is compiled, it's all anonymous. > On the other hand, lots of languages use quotations or closures as > their primary feature, and they are considered hugely useful. The primary feature of many other languages are procedures or functions. Although that's more noticeable in languages like C and Pascal, Forth and even BASIC are in that category. The point being: Why do you need two primary methods of grouping and sequencing code for execution? Isn't one method sufficient? I'm saying that octagonal wheels might have some benefit when they're new, especially in the winter or with off-road driving in mud, but over time, they'll naturally wear into round ones which roll a bit easier... > A lot of programmers have largely chilled out on OOP which was the > silver-bullet of the 1990s, [...] I didn't really see the point of OOP in regards to C++. Yes, there are some nice features, e.g., object.action syntax. That can be emulated in C with a struct and a loop. But, for the most part all OOP seemed to do was hide the code that would be eventually be executed and make it difficult to determine which code would actually be executed. What purpose does that serve? Have you ever tried to track down a #define or where a global variable is initialize within millions of lines of code? I have: 5Mloc... At best, OOP allows one to "overload" the parameters to functions. That's convenient, occasionally. But, just how do you know which types are *disallowed* as parameters when many multiple types of parameters are allowed to be passed to that procedure because it's overloaded? Do you have to look up that functions' numerous parameter declarations? PIA, if so... Are these all in one place or distributed all over the place? More PIA, if so... Do you have to compile the code to find out? That's bad language design, if so... > [...] found quotations or closures to be much more useful --- I'm in > this category. Some people like GOTO's too... Others like programming in hexadecimal. A bunch of people around here prefer RPN, or so I've heard. > On the subject of Factor, it uses quotations for control-structures. > I considered doing that in my own language too. It's your language. Do what you want. Are you asking for input from others on your language design? Forth is for those asking about Forth. Try comp.lang.misc or comp.compilers. > I decided to stick with traditional Forth control-structures however, > because I don't want to get too far away from good-old Forth [...]. Why? Aren't you afraid you might forgo or overlook some important discovery by doing so? Why are you forcing yourself to be constrained to the conventional models you apparently hate? > (and I don't want to give Rod ammo for saying that my language isn't > Forth anymore). If it's your language, just for you, why does it matter if it's Forth? Is it because you desire that Forthers to adopt your language? If the result of adding quotations to Forth is novel, don't you want to be known for creating a new, better language than Forth, say 1DUPF++ , instead of just being known for "fixing" Forth? ... FYI, 1DUPF++ is a take on C++ but for Forth where 'F' represent Forth: 1 DUP F + + > Also, I couldn't figure out how to make quotation-based > control-structures as efficient as traditional-Forth control-structures. That's a bad start. Work on it. You might develop a new, better, faster, leaner, quotation model that works with procedural languages. > [...] whereas I am generating ITC [...] Forth is primarily procedure or function based. Each high-level Forth word is a procedure or function. ENTER or DOCOL is the procedure's call. EXIT or SEMIS is the procedure's exit. The interpreted implementations of the Forth language is well designed for procedures but not so well for branching. This is why BRANCH and 0BRANCH or ?BRANCH are awkward to implement within an ITC Forth. Technically, Forth is 0-operand, i.e., it has no parameters. In reality, that just means it's parameters are on a stack, not formally passed, and not setup and cleaned up by the language. Rod Pemberton
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