Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Less Is Moore Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:37:23 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; 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:38663 On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:10:01 -0400, Steve Graham wrote: > https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-04-26-less-is-moore > > The author posits that Forth is minimalistic because it originated > in a resource-constrained era and asks if it is still relevant? I see that as a valid question. BASIC on the Commodore C64 is not well-suited to a modern x86 PC with lots of memory. The language has constraints due to the constrained resources of the original machine. Forth obviously requires lots of stack juggling. This is an activity which is needed in other languages. Rod Pemberton -- Cars kill more people than guns in the U.S. Yet, no one is trying to take away your car.