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| From | "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Tricky sorting |
| Date | 2016-07-14 06:44 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nm7ccc$l3o$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <nm7ain$gd2$1@dont-email.me> |
WJ wrote: > For this task, or any task not trivially simple, why would one > want to use ANS Forth, a language lacking sorting, lists, arrays, > tuples, and just about everything else? Also lacking structures (records), hash-tables (associative arrays), string-handling functions, a regular-expression engine, integers of unlimited size, closures, etc. However, the simple souls who use it are mightily impressed by the way it can actually add two integers together: 2 2 + . 4 ok Wow! It's even better than an abacus! -- The report card by the American Society of Civil Engineers showed the national infrastructure a single grade above failure, a step from declining to the point where everyday things simply stop working the way people expect them to. --- washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/us-infrastructure-gets-d-in-annual-report/2013/03/19/c48cb010-900b-11e2-9cfd-36d6c9b5d7ad_story.html
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Tricky sorting "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-14 06:13 +0000
Re: Tricky sorting "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-14 06:25 +0000
Re: Tricky sorting "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-14 06:44 +0000
Re: Tricky sorting Richard Todd <richard.wesley.todd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-14 14:56 -0700
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