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Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH?
Date 2015-10-26 21:56 -0700
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lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> writes:
> What I meant was that it seems rather easy to extend Forth into an
> all-purpose multidimensional array calculator where the top words
> could be very easy to understand - easy to understand what they are
> doing, but totally hidden how it is done.

Sounds like lots of design, implementation, debugging, maybe user
testing, etc. just to add two vectors together.  It might be possible to
sweep some messy code under the rug, but it's still there.

> I might try to develop "big-arrays" for ANS Forth and then wonder
> about the idiomatic implementation.

I'd like to see it.  It sounds complicated but might be worthwhile anyway.

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How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 00:02 -0700
  Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-26 00:58 -0700
    Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 02:36 -0700
      Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-26 21:56 -0700
    Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 03:09 -0700
      Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 03:14 -0700
        Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 04:55 -0700
          Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 05:11 -0700
            Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 06:35 -0700
              Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 12:25 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 00:47 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 08:06 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 23:43 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 01:30 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 01:58 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? franck.bensusan@gmail.com - 2015-10-28 02:56 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 03:36 -0700
                Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 15:31 +0100
      Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-26 21:58 -0700
        Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 23:38 -0700
        Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-10-27 09:24 +0000
          Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 02:54 -0700
    Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? mhx@iae.nl - 2015-10-26 11:31 -0700
  Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-10-26 04:54 -0400
    Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-26 02:09 -0700
      Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 11:16 +0200
      Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-10-26 10:49 +0100
      Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 11:22 +0100
        Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-10-28 04:09 -0700
        Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-10-29 19:52 -0700
        Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-30 09:00 +0000
    Re: How to solve this problem in FORTH? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 02:44 -0700

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