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Re: Less Is Moore

From "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Less Is Moore
Date 2015-04-27 18:39 -0400
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:37:23 -0400, Rod Pemberton <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm>  
wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:10:01 -0400, Steve Graham  
> <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> wrote:

>> https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-04-26-less-is-moore
>>
>> The author posits that Forth is minimalistic because it originated
>> in a resource-constrained era and asks if it is still relevant?
>
> I see that as a valid question.  BASIC on the Commodore C64 is not
> well-suited to a modern x86 PC with lots of memory.  The language
> has constraints due to the constrained resources of the original
> machine.  Forth obviously requires lots of stack juggling.  This
> is an activity which is needed in other languages.

Ooops...  s/needed/unneeded

RP


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Less Is Moore Steve Graham <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> - 2015-04-27 13:10 -0700
  Re: Less Is Moore "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-27 21:22 +0100
    Re: Less Is Moore "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-27 13:29 -1000
      Re: Less Is Moore Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2015-04-28 01:12 -0700
  Re: Less Is Moore "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-27 18:37 -0400
    Re: Less Is Moore "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-27 18:39 -0400
      Re: Less Is Moore "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-27 13:26 -1000
        Re: Less Is Moore "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-27 20:11 -0400
          Re: Less Is Moore "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-27 17:59 -1000
  Re: Less Is Moore "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-05-01 13:39 +1000

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