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  where's colorforth for LINUX? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-07-26 07:13 +0000
    Re: where's colorforth for LINUX? Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-07-26 12:45 +0100

#32671 — where's colorforth for LINUX?

google lead me to sourceforge;
so I put the URL which didn't suggest being a binary,
in my list of <append fetched text to ColorForth:File>.
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.

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Unknown wrote:

> google lead me to sourceforge;
> so I put the URL which didn't suggest being a binary,
> in my list of <append fetched text to ColorForth:File>.
> 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.

Have you had a look at the links on:-

<http://www.forthfreak.net/index.cgi?colorForth>

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