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Re: I am afriad

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: I am afriad
Date 2016-06-20 22:51 -0400
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On 6/20/2016 10:03 PM, Chris Curl wrote:
> I have been a software developer for 30+ years. Trust me, I know how to
> design and build very large scale programs.
>
> Some languages lend themselves well to a top-down programming style. Forth
> does not seem to be a language that fits that model very well.
>
> Please elaborate how you can write the high level words first, followed by the
> supporting words. Forth's whole paradigm is to continually extend the
> vocabulary, creating higher and higher level words from the words that already
> exist. That is a classic example of bottom up programming.
>
> What am I missing?

The distinction between code and design... as I said before.

How do you do top down design in C or any other language?  In Forth you 
do the same thing.

-- 

Rick C

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  Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 05:29 -0700
    Re: I am afriad "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-06-20 19:43 -0100
      Re: I am afriad endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 14:42 -0700
        Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 19:35 -0700
    Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 16:00 -0400
      Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 19:03 -0700
        Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 19:23 -0700
          Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:58 -0400
        Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:51 -0400
          Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 20:23 -0700
            Re: I am afriad rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 23:51 -0400
            Re: I am afriad Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 07:04 +0300
              Re: I am afriad Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 05:33 -0700
                Re: I am afriad Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 16:05 +0300
                Re: I am afriad anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-06-21 13:30 +0000
            Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-20 21:10 -0700
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              Re: I am afriad Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 07:41 +0300
  Re: I am afriad Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 05:23 -0700
    Re: I am afriad Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2016-06-21 08:27 -0500
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    Re: I am afriad hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2016-06-21 22:58 -0700
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        Re: I am afriad Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 08:06 -0700
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