....NET>, Doug Hoffman <no.spam> wrote: Elizabeth D Rather wrote: Marcel Hendrix wrote: Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> writes Re: A Brief Look at History [..] The thought model is moving a light beam on the screen. It could be off, in which case it makes no mark, or ...

Marcel Hendrix wrote: Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> writes Re: A Brief Look at History [..] The thought model is moving a light beam on the screen. It could be off, in which case it makes no mark, or on, in which case a line is drawn. Assume two words, ON and OFF, that control the beam. The beam stays in whatever state it's ...

Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> writes Re: A Brief Look at History [..] The thought model is moving a light beam on the screen. It could be off, in which case it makes no mark, or on, in which case a line is drawn. Assume two words, ON and OFF, that control the beam. The beam stays in whatever state it's set. 0, 0 is the upper left ...

...andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes Re: A Brief Look at History Marcel Hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> wrote: Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote Re: A Brief Look at History [..] Would it be possible to... any of Forth's capabilities; it looks to me as though someone has ... case anyway. OK, fair comment. It looks like it's been mechanically translated ...

Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> writes Re: A Brief Look at History [..] I was joking. I know. However, I could imagine Forth code that looked like this: DUP 1- 0 DO DUP R I 1+ DO ( S: x{ fx{ F: u ) v=(u-x{J})*fx{I} w=(u-x{I})*fx(J) fx{I}=(v-w)/(x{I}-x{J}) LOOP LOOP DROP Would that be superficially readable ...

Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> writes Re: A Brief Look at History mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) wrote: [..] To make it more readable we'd do better with local VALUE arrays. Make ... } ; Then if we just do something about the DO loops we could get it looking real good. :-)) Why is it frowned upon to use Forth's power to write a sublanguage in ...

Jonah Thomas <jethomas5@gmail.com> writes Re: A Brief Look at History [..] Alternatively, you might find a single Forth that's been ported to MSWindows, Mac, Sun, Linux, and OSX and is being actively maintained in them all, and write the demo Forth in that. You mean SOD64? Even SEEing the machine code would work on all platforms :-) -marcel

Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes Re: A Brief Look at History Marcel Hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> wrote: Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote Re: A Brief Look at History [..] Would it be possible to write the ... takes no advantage of any of Forth's capabilities; it looks to me as though someone has taken the code ...

... <mhx@iae.nl> wrote: Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote Re: A Brief Look at History [..] Doug Hoffman <no.spam> wrote: [..] I repeat, we need to cease badmouthing the use of ..., and takes no advantage of any of Forth's capabilities; it looks to me as though someone has taken the code out of ...

Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote Re: A Brief Look at History [..] Doug Hoffman <no.spam> wrote: [..] I repeat, we need to cease badmouthing the use of named locals and named input parameters. This is likely our best hook to get newbies started with Forth. Further, I have heard the oft repeated "locals...