Re: Cross Platform Development

From	Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi, comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Cross Platform Development
Date	2015-04-28 15:16 -0700
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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rickman wrote:
> On 4/26/2015 3:43 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:25:37 -0400, rickman wrote:
>>
>>> You may have found a forth that didn't have much compiled code, which is
>>> not impractical since Forth generally compiles very quickly compared to
>>> other languages.  But I was disagreeing with this statement,
>>> "Traditional Forths didn't have a compiled form".  I think if you look
>>> around at Forths from any period you will find very few that are not
>>> compiled with only the user code loaded at run time.
>>>
>> They might have had the ability to save state in a loadable form.
>> I can only quote (which is what I was doing from what I remember reading
>> at the time (late 70s/early 80s).
>>
>>> Funny how small aspects of something stand out and are remembered. Forth
>>> was invented by Charles Moore who was developing code to control
>>> telescopes.  Since then it has done many, many other things.  It has two
>>> main attributes in my opinion.  One is the interactivity when
>>> controlling hardware which is actually useful for many, many non-control
>>> apps as it facilitates testing.  The other is the flexibility as the
>>> language is easily extensible and allows the developer to create a
>>> "custom" language to suit the application.
>>>
>> Noted.
>>
>> There were a number of odd/specialised languages around at the time which
>> are not much used now and many of them had similar development
>> characteristics and the ability to run on small, slow machines.
>>
>> MUMPS, anybody?
>
> Lol!  I dated a gal who knew MUMPS and loved it.  She works for a
> medical testing lab and they use it in a lot of their internal systems.
>
>

MUMPS is still the primary language used at the Veterans Administration 
healthcare systems, which I believe is the largest such system in the world.

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Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 09:25 -0400
  Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-26 19:43 +0000
    Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-26 21:30 -0400
      Re: Cross Platform Development Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-28 15:16 -0700
    Re: Cross Platform Development hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-26 19:46 -0700
    Re: Cross Platform Development "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-26 22:23 -1000
      Re: Cross Platform Development Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-28 15:12 -0700
        Re: Cross Platform Development The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-29 05:23 +0100
          Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:34 -0400
            Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-29 19:31 +0000
              Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 15:43 -0400
                Re: Cross Platform Development Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-04-29 20:07 +0000
                Re: Cross Platform Development rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 18:49 -0400
              Re: Cross Platform Development Mike Fleming <{mike}@tauzero.co.uk> - 2015-05-01 18:23 +0100
                Re: Cross Platform Development Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-05-02 02:35 -0500
                Re: Cross Platform Development Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-05-02 10:08 +0000
  Re: Cross Platform Development The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-27 09:31 +0100

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