Back on-topic: what attracted you to Forth?' (was: OT: Hugh's in need of help ...)

From	Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Back on-topic: what attracted you to Forth?' (was: OT: Hugh's in need of help ...)
Date	2017-04-30 08:42 +0300
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On 04/30/17 04:09, HAA wrote:
> Ron Aaron wrote:
>> Among the Jewish population, only 44% identify as "secular or
>> non-religious", which surprises me -- it's always been more than 50%
>> (and in the past, considerably more).

> I'd say what's being reported is the willingness or otherwise of citizens to
> publicly express a position, and that's going to be influenced by external
> factors.  A 'secular or non-religious' doesn't suddenly 'get religion'.

Maybe, but it's the same polling body with the same polling methodology.
 Not that it matters too much: as you say, people may answer what they
feel is safe to answer.

>> Still off-topic for the group, though...
> 
> Easily remedied e.g. 'What attracted you to Forth - circumstance or disposition?' :)

:)

I'm not sure that binary choice is really it.  Something of a
combination, I would say.

I first got interested in Forth when I was looking for a small
interpreter to insert into a project.  I did a lot of research, and
found that Forth was (at the time, anyway) about as small an interpreter
as I could get away with and have the functionality I needed.  This was
for an employer's product, "back in the day".

Having been intrigued by Forth and finding it useful, I messed around
with Win32Forth and some others.  Then I stumbled upon RetroForth.

At that point, I decided I wanted a small and fast Forth, so I asked C.
Childers (the RetroForth author) if I could fork his assembly version of
RF. He said I could take it over altogether, and so the very first
version of "Reva Forth" was born.  Reva quickly diverged from RF, but
they continued to borrow from each other for a while.

That was an interesting project.  I got to work in ASM and Forth, which
satisfied my low-level disposition.  But circumstances overtook me, and
Reva lay fallow (from my perspective, anyway; others have apparently
forked or derived from it).

Some time later, I wanted a cross-platform language for a crypto-based
project.  I had some stringent security concerns, and wasn't happy with
any of the alternatives.  Remembering the fun I had with Reva, I took
some of its ideas (and none of its code) to make 8th.

To answer the question: for me, it's both :)

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