Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: awanderin Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Subject: Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:30:43 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <21343fcf-e1d8-4ce8-88fc-dd159339fc99@googlegroups.com> <67eb91ed-ff9e-4a62-8eaf-91ed9ed6d6e9@googlegroups.com> <7a152d80-9e73-4e12-9690-11f605c142ad@googlegroups.com> <8e038eb6-05b8-4d9f-881b-302284c29bda@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2a5d69718f0ccf184d03857b35e94e44"; logging-data="10701"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ZViCtRfpqjSKU+PN3QorJ0/xcZm7IZD0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kDRfbSDyf0Hc/usG+OQmRpECs/4= sha1:allLpu7eOvQxl3WgGNNYr2Yb1G0= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2.programmer:5505 gids.rs@sasktel.net writes: > You are probably in the same boat I was with The Forth language. Too > many incomplete systems, but after disassembling each one and coming > across the source of one popular application, I am able to program a > more complete Forth system that has the best traits of all the other > Forths. > > It was even much easier to port some words written for a Forth system > written for another platform. > > Until recently I didn’t think any applications were written with > Forth. A complete working application and its source helped me out a > lot. > > You may have to do the same and find a complete working application in > Cobol to see how they managed the discrepancy For what it's worth, the game Amnesia (by electronic arts) was written in Forth. The game's english parser is really just a forth vocabulary. -- Jerry awanderin at gmail dot com