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| From | Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Forth as a polarising language |
| References | (15 earlier) <4730306.fNe2lVOm3c@sunwukong.fritz.box> <7xehmax2rm.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <2370419.WlZCQYq3kg@sunwukong.fritz.box> <7xzk4y8vuu.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <44911562.uCePkysVEk@sunwukong.fritz.box> |
| Date | 2012-09-10 07:00 -0700 |
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| Organization | Nightsong/Fort GNOX |
Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> writes: >> Yeah, logging helps, and the restart mechanism may be able to inspect >> the carcass of the crashed program before restarting.... > I can see that this sort of thinking makes sense in other languages, > where inspecting the program is difficult, but in Forth, no. What do you mean about inspecting the program being easier in Forth than other languages? I just meant letting the recovery mechanism collect some debugging info beyond the crash dump. (I'll confess I don't know how Erlang/OTP programs usually handle this situation and now I'm kind of wondering.) > I assure you, the / operation in Forth is a very useful operation. It's > actually not a division in the ring of integers, it's a rounded division > in the subset of N. Right, something like /MOD NIP which is a purely integer operation. There's no attempt by Forth to automatically choose between / and (e.g.) S>F F/ and it doesn't seem Forth-like to do so. >> in Forth I think I'd be happier getting an error message and >> backtrace in the event of a mismatch. > Yes, you usually do get that. I don't remember the backtraces being terribly useful, and often they didn't happen at the actual point of the error. What happens with the backtrace when there's user data on the return stack? >> You often have to refactor large chunks of code to get data from one >> place to another where there was no path before. > A result from the "bury your tool" mentality in other languages. I don't understand this. You're saying it doesn't happen in Forth? > Simulation passes can take quite a while, VHDL is not a fast language > (slow compiles, slow runs). Hmm, ok. I wonder why compiles intended to run a simulator are slow: are they slower than, say, C++ compilations for the same amount of source text? ( Joke: http://xkcd.com/303/ ) Slow simulations I can understand, but that argues for more error checks at compile time. > Some people back then had statistics that Verilog was about 3 times as > productive than VHDL. Wow, that's interesting, I had thought they were pretty comparable, with mostly stylistic differences. > With my FGPA stuff, I often end up doing as much as possible in Forth on > the b16 instead of writing new HDL code, This makes sense, and probably saves hardware a lot of the time, if the b16 code is in a RAM block re-using the b16 logic, instead of using up CLB's.
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Re: Forth as a polarising language Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-07 14:05 -0700
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Re: Forth as a polarising language Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-07 18:22 -0700
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Re: Forth as a polarising language Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-09 15:14 -0700
Re: Forth as a polarising language Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-10 01:52 +0200
Re: Forth as a polarising language Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-09 19:17 -0700
Re: Forth as a polarising language Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-10 15:01 +0200
Re: Forth as a polarising language Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-10 07:00 -0700
Re: Forth as a polarising language Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-09-11 01:07 +0200
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