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Article #338Re: What's so good about FORTH?
From: jad
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1986 04:05
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1986 04:05
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Once upon a time I was using a machine with limited resources - it did, however, have a floppy drive and 6k of ROM space. Into that space, using a variant of FORTH I was able to put a programming environment and a disk-based text editor. Not much, perhaps, but enough to get the Christmas letters out on time one year, with variations to each recipient. This justified (for that year, at least) the expenditures that went into that system. What impresses me more are the FORTH-based (or FORTH-like) systems that implement things undreamed-of only a few years ago, things that you can hold in your hand and run from batteries . . .
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!pesnta!phri!cmcl2!lanl!jad From: jad@lanl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.forth Subject: Re: What's so good about FORTH? Message-ID: <4342@lanl.ARPA> Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 00:05:57 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.4342 Posted: Thu Jun 19 00:05:57 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jun-86 03:45:10 EDT References: <369@chinet.UUCP> <173@tekgen.UUCP> <1566@tekgvs.UUCP> Reply-To: jad@a.UUCP (John De Vries) Distribution: na Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 12