Re: Starting Forth 6.

Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Date	2013-09-25 20:09 -0700
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Subject	Re: Starting Forth 6.
From	hughaguilar96@yahoo.com

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On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:44:35 AM UTC-7, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> But my point is that you can define data objects to behave *exactly* the 
> way you want them to, to solve the problem at hand.

I totally disagree with this. It is foolish to custom-implement basic data structures such as arrays for every application. It is easy to write a general-purpose array or linked-list or whatever, that works exactly the way that you want it to for *every* application.

Forthers have to stop dinking around with reinventing the wheel over and over again --- no professional company allots time for their employees to do this --- the employees are expected to spend their time writing application code and making progress. 

An employee can't tell his boss: "Well, I spent all day implementing a linked list, and the remainder of the week will be spent on implementing an LLRB tree --- maybe I will start on the application program next week --- unless I think of some more fun ways to avoid getting started in the meantime!" --- that is a good way to get fired.

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Starting Forth 6. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-24 23:09 +0000
  Re: Starting Forth 6. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-24 23:36 +0000
    Re: Starting Forth 6. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-09-24 23:47 +0000
  Re: Starting Forth 6. "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-09-25 18:22 +1000
    Re: Starting Forth 6. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-25 08:44 -1000
      Re: Starting Forth 6. hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-25 20:09 -0700
        Re: Starting Forth 6. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-09-26 12:27 +0000
          Re: Starting Forth 6. "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-09-26 09:09 -1000
            Re: Starting Forth 6. hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-27 23:16 -0700
              Re: Starting Forth 6. the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 17:07 -0800
            Re: Starting Forth 6. "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 22:37 -0700
              Re: Starting Forth 6. the_gavino_himself <visphatesjava@gmail.com> - 2013-11-16 17:11 -0800
                Re: Starting Forth 6. "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <notagoodone@invalid.org.invalid> - 2013-12-11 16:49 +0000
          Re: Starting Forth 6. "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-09-27 11:39 +1000
            Re: Starting Forth 6. "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 22:39 -0700
          Re: Starting Forth 6. hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-30 16:47 -0700
          Re: Starting Forth 6. David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2013-10-12 18:22 -0400
            Re: Starting Forth 6. albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-10-13 12:17 +0000
        Re: Starting Forth 6. Whammo <sidciavic@gmail.com> - 2013-09-26 11:37 -0700
          Re: Starting Forth 6. hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-27 22:28 -0700
          Re: Starting Forth 6. "Clyde W. Phillips Jr." <cwpjr02@gmail.com> - 2013-10-11 22:34 -0700
    Re: Starting Forth 6. hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2013-09-25 19:58 -0700
  Re: Starting Forth 6. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-01 15:21 +0000
  Re: Starting Forth 6. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-12 09:17 +0000
  Re: Starting Forth 6. "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-12 19:01 +0000

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