Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Unknown Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: where's colorforth for LINUX? Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="42f52d1422397d34022d06a304c41b82"; logging-data="12984"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qVL9JfY0OQFzGy7Gtb3FDblaaAdD7ZIk=" User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pPJKtWQvtR+4H2IDNXKIHSmcikE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:32671 google lead me to sourceforge; so I put the URL which didn't suggest being a binary, in my list of . And it dumped a fat M$loth executable there! ColoUr is efficient for providing an extra dimention for complex-problem solving. We have evolved as visual-creatures. Heads-up: selecting from menues, is how it should be. Tapping messages to the-little-man-in-the box is absurd. To facilitate human-reading [which we paid schooling costs for] we should just select the syntactically valid choice at the present context. A bit like spreadsheets. Unpaired-brackets should be as rare as a pencil-without-lead. Nesting of brackets should show the contents in alternate colours, by default. Using a new computer language should be like visiting a new town; which has the same rules: like selecting 1-of-a-zillion telephone numbers from the directory. I suspect colorforth uses some of these ideas? ETHOberon from the 90's does -- with great effect.