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| Date | 2015-04-27 13:26 -1000 |
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| From | "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> |
| Organization | FORTH, Inc. |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Less Is Moore |
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On 4/27/15 12:39 PM, Rod Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:37:23 -0400, Rod Pemberton > <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:10:01 -0400, Steve Graham >> <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-04-26-less-is-moore >>> >>> The author posits that Forth is minimalistic because it originated >>> in a resource-constrained era and asks if it is still relevant? >> >> I see that as a valid question. BASIC on the Commodore C64 is not >> well-suited to a modern x86 PC with lots of memory. The language >> has constraints due to the constrained resources of the original >> machine. Forth obviously requires lots of stack juggling. This >> is an activity which is needed in other languages. > > Ooops... s/needed/unneeded Yes, but it's an activity on the programmer's part, not the device's. And experienced Forth programmers need a lot less of it than other people. The fact is, Forth applications are consistently a lot smaller than programs written in languages that "don't need stack juggling" with comparable performance. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH Inc. +1 310.999.6784 5959 West Century Blvd. Suite 700 Los Angeles, CA 90045 http://www.forth.com "Forth-based products and Services for real-time applications since 1973." ==================================================
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Less Is Moore Steve Graham <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> - 2015-04-27 13:10 -0700
Re: Less Is Moore "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-27 21:22 +0100
Re: Less Is Moore "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-27 13:29 -1000
Re: Less Is Moore Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-04-28 01:12 -0700
Re: Less Is Moore "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-27 18:37 -0400
Re: Less Is Moore "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-27 18:39 -0400
Re: Less Is Moore "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-27 13:26 -1000
Re: Less Is Moore "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-27 20:11 -0400
Re: Less Is Moore "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-27 17:59 -1000
Re: Less Is Moore "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-05-01 13:39 +1000
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