Re: who really use Forth ?

From	"WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: who really use Forth ?
Date	2015-11-04 00:07 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Raimond Dragomir wrote:

> Many forthers claim that doing forth in the simplistic way is fun... Yup,
> it's fun for a while. It's fun to not use locals, to not use fields, to use
> only DUP OVER SWAP DROP.
> 
> But the fun is over when you finally have to do a real job, and suddenly
> find that you are naked, no locals, no fields, no arrays, no nothing...
> 
> A simplistic language that people use for "fun" has a name: "toy language"


Ruby:

  s = 'A simplistic language that people use for "fun" has a name:'
  puts s, [[14,2],[2,1],[1,1],[38,3],[22,2]].map{|x| s[*x]}.join.upcase

A simplistic language that people use for "fun" has a name:
ANS FORTH

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who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-30 16:12 -0700
  Re: who really use Forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 16:27 -0700
    Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-30 16:53 -0700
      Re: who really use Forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 09:16 -0700
        Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-31 12:49 -0700
  Re: who really use Forth ? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-10-31 01:27 +0100
  Re: who really use Forth ? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-31 00:26 +0000
    Re: who really use Forth ? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-31 10:46 +0000
      Re: who really use Forth ? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-06-18 01:35 +0000
  Re: who really use Forth ? Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 18:34 -0700
    Re: who really use Forth ? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-31 10:57 +0000
      Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-31 13:13 -0700
        Re: who really use Forth ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 17:22 -0400
      Re: who really use Forth ? "Rod Pemberton" <too@zxcvfeqad.cdm> - 2015-11-02 02:32 -0500
        Re: who really use Forth ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-02 09:04 +0100
  Re: who really use Forth ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-10-30 18:35 -1000
  Re: who really use Forth ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 02:51 -0400
  Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 23:52 -0700
  Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-31 00:04 -0700
    Re: who really use Forth ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 03:16 -0400
    Re: who really use Forth ? Pablo Hugo Reda <pabloreda@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 06:00 -0700
    Re: who really use Forth ? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2015-10-31 08:35 -0500
      Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-31 13:08 -0700
      Re: who really use Forth ? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-31 13:40 -0700
        Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-10-31 13:55 -0700
    Re: who really use Forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-10-31 14:10 -0700
      Re: who really use Forth ? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-01 11:15 +0000
        Re: who really use Forth ? Alfred Singlestone <vitonis@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 05:37 -0800
          Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 05:59 -0800
  Re: who really use Forth ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-10-31 10:17 +0000
    Re: who really use Forth ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-10-31 16:53 +0000
  Re: who really use Forth ? Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 14:04 -0700
    Re: who really use Forth ? Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2015-11-02 10:57 +0100
  Re: who really use Forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 21:23 -0700
  Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-11-02 06:05 -0800
    Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 07:43 -0800
    Re: who really use Forth ? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 08:02 -0800
  Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 08:53 -0800
    Re: who really use Forth ? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 09:05 -0800
      Re: who really use Forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-02 09:48 -0800
      Re: who really use Forth ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-02 08:11 -1000
  Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 10:39 -0800
    Re: who really use Forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-02 16:37 -0800
      Re: who really use Forth ? Raimond Dragomir <raimond.dragomir@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 22:59 -0800
        Re: who really use Forth ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-02 21:16 -1000
          Re: who really use Forth ? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-11-03 11:04 +0000
            Re: who really use Forth ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-03 08:17 -1000
              Re: who really use Forth ? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-11-03 18:20 -0800
                Re: who really use Forth ? François <francois.ganza@wanadoo.fr> - 2015-11-03 22:26 -0800
                Re: who really use Forth ? lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 23:21 -0800
              Re: who really use Forth ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-04 09:33 +0000
          Re: who really use Forth ? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-03 11:07 +0000
            Re: who really use Forth ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 03:23 -0800
              Re: who really use Forth ? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-03 22:24 +0100
        Re: who really use Forth ? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 01:35 -0800
        Re: who really use Forth ? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 11:18 -0500
        Re: who really use Forth ? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-04 00:07 +0000
        Re: who really use Forth ? Alfred Singlestone <vitonis@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 17:01 -0800
  Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 10:59 -0800
    Re: who really use Forth ? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-03 10:00 -1000
      Re: who really use Forth ? Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 13:31 -0800

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