Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!mmdf
From: MROBINSON@wash-vax.bbn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: YALW
Message-ID: <19248@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 Jul 89 01:36:46 GMT
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[Valentin comments that use of Forth indicates a desire to complete
 a task yesterday]

This just caught my interest.  I used Forth for some graphics back when I
had a summer job at Goddard Space Flight Center.  They weren't on a time
crunch, but were interested in modularity and being able to work at a low
level and a high level at the same time.  Plus, I hear most astrophysicists
like Forth for some reason.

The language that made it quickest for me to get complicated things done
quickly was Quintus Prolog (a damn fine implementation, guys!).  The nice
thing about Prolog is that IF you are of a logical turn of mind, AND you can
find a coherent model for the optimal algorithm for your problem, Prolog allows
you to express that model in a short program (and I mean SHORT!) that works in
the general case, and (at least with Quintus, I know other implementations of
which I would not say this) very efficiently.  The drawback to Prolog is that
one really can't use it very well for interacting with the operating system;
I always used their C language interface to do sockets and the like.

--Max mrobinson@wash-vax.bbn.com