... Re: a relationaldatabasedone in forth would r0ck [..] It also ... scanners), supporting services (web servers, database engines), and library routines (searches,... this! No technique is more Forth-like than interactive execution and...difficult without recreating facilities that Forth already has. But if you...other languages in use today, "Forth-like" become standard language-independent...
... Re: a relationaldatabasedone in forth would r0ck [..] It also ... knowing the strategies, not using Forth. This is the point I ... merely recode an application in Forth, it magically gets smaller, faster,... best. My argument is that "Forth-like" really has little to...have no evidence that doing Forth-like things in language X...easier than doing it in Forth, I will appreciate that observation...
... relative. And that applies to databases as well. If someone was...SQL-based relationaldatabase system like Firebird in Forth, it would...ve gotten some books on Forth. Great... now here's something...taking the _same_ approach using Forth. You may see some slight...improvement. 3) Finally, take the Forth code you just wrote-- the...performance improvement you saw with Forth will also be seen with...
... Nobody else has this! No technique is more Forth-like than interactive execution and testing! ...code incrementally and test it. Ummm, but Forth lets you use the text interpreter to simplify... out from Bernd's web server in Forth: : GET get-url data on active off ;...that what some people believe is unique to forth is simply a common attribute of interpreted ...
...! Hoo-boy! Nobody else has this! No technique is more Forth-like than interactive execution and testing! : square dup... you build up code incrementally and test it. Ummm, but Forth lets you use the text interpreter to simplify applications! Check this definition out from Bernd's web server in Forth: : GET get-url data on active off ; S"...
...John Passaniti <n...@JapanIsShinto.com> wrote: gavino wrote: .... 1) Take some non-trivial code you've written in some other language and code it taking the _same_ approach using Forth. I doubt that he has written non-trivial code. I doubt that he knows a single programming language. One who is afraid to commit himself to one language as his first language will continue to ...
...0400, John Passaniti <nntp@JapanIsShinto.com> wrote: <snip> Regardless, most Forth development these days is not under blocks. But that'...the number-of-line constraints you apparently love of old-school Forth development have been a part of programming for years and... and also on the amount of drawing that could be done before the refresh cycle gave the viewer headaches. But vector...
...then you will not imagine that Forth could promote good technique. No, ...to avoid answering the question (how Forth makes bad programming practice show ... to debug. I could have done that using lots of global ... a constrained programming contest for Forth that challenged assumptions and forced ... think differently. For example, most Forth programmers are concerned (sometimes overly ...
... that. Blocks. I thought the "Forth" way was to provide all ... reasons to use blocks files related to system type or resources ... and reduce head motion. When Forths first became OS-hosted, blocks ...still a few block-based Forths (Colorforth is the best-known...blocks files with the two Forths I use on my OS...written completely in high level Forth (Carbon MacForth) with full source...
... how to use them (syntax and semantics), but also how they are actually implemented in your Forth. It's one thing to reject the use of a language feature (like locals) because you ..., experimentation, thought, and finally choice. It's another to reject a language feature because the Forth orthodoxy and tradition rejects it. That kind of rejection comes more from religious dogma, not ...
