> No human should suffer the punishment that I'm experiencing at
> trying to re-use picforth [based on the fine/robust gforth]
> after 3 years.
>
> He writes "if you know forth...".
> How can you 'know forth' ? forth is not to know.
> forth is a perverted bottom-up presentation format; when you
> should be conditioning your problem-solving to be top-down.
>
> Particularly since gforth is so open and nicely presented
> [within the constraints of the forth format], I'd like to
> analyse how, File: test.mini> func sign(n)

>>   var r;
>>   if (n<0) then
>>     r:=-1;
>>   else
>>     if (0 >>       r:=1;
>>     else ...

> I suggest you start from the top down and wite one ;-). But seriously
> algol on a pic? I'm sure top down is the perversion of bottom up, as
> all code is built up. Take sky scrapper example. I'm sure thedrawings
> were done very top down fashion due to the penthouse prices, but even
> though the cranes are top from bottom up today, the scrapper is most
> definately bottom up implemented.
>