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Article #236Does anyone have a simple screen editor written in forth?
From: Wayne Knapp
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1985 16:10
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1985 16:10
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Brodie's ideas are for the birds. (from the book Thinking Forth) I for one
think writing my code in 1k blocks is stupid. I really can't believe that
variable lenghts files promote bad code. So does anyone else feel the same.
Has anyone written a screen editor that avoids the 1k blocks? If so and it
is in the public domain, I would really like a copy.
About Brodie's ideas.
His views about dictionarys - Not only Forth, what about lisp, smalltalk
prolog. Not a new idea.
About editors - completely all wet
About control strutures - I have to wonder if Brodie has ever really
written any code. I've never seen block
strutured code as badly written as his
examples.
I suggest that if you want to read the book "Thinking Forth", that you should
check it out from a libarary. Don't waste any money on it. The book starts
out fine, but by the middle of the book Brodie gone over the deep end. Parts
of the book read like they were written by a mad man, or at least by someone
who hasn't done any real programming.
By the way, I do think Forth is neat.
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