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From: koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Success of FORTH in the marketplace
Summary: an experience with Forth training
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Date: 5 Aug 89 11:03:10 GMT
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In article <8907300608.AA04417@jade.berkeley.edu>, ZMLEB@SCFVM.BITNET (Lee Brotzman) writes:
> ...  I have used the techniques I gained from
> an intimate knowledge of Forth in other, "academically accepted", languages.
> The functions and procedures I write now in C, Pascal, and Rexx are more
> brief and semantically coherent. ...

When I took a compiler design course, we had to write a "baby C"
compiler in C without using LEX, YACC, etc.

I think that my Forth programming experience helped me write much
better C code.  My code was done in fewer hours,
and in fewer lines of code than any other projects in the course.
It also had a whole lot more procedure calls than the others.
A typical comment was: "that can't be all of it, it's not thick
enough" when handing in a code listing.

  Phil Koopman                koopman@greyhound.ece.cmu.edu   Arpanet
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