Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!usc!samsung!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth in C (was Re: Forth from scratch) Message-ID: <6991@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Nov 89 12:43:46 GMT References: <4839@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <2570@fai.UUCP> <4969@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <8630@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <21215@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <8637@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <930@acf5.NYU.EDU> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <930@acf5.NYU.EDU> sabbagh@acf5.UUCP () writes: > To add to the "Forth written in C debate" I wish to point out that, > in UNIX, it is not _possible_ to write [a FORTH assembler] because > the "text space" [is] _read-only_. Not in *all* UNIX implementations and all models. Just in 'pure code' models. Now a particular UNIX may not support impure code, but that's a different matter. The grandaddy of them all, PDP-11 UNIX, certainly did. And I did run Forth with a Forth assembler on it. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva . 'U` -------------- +1 713 274 5180. "*Real* wizards don't whine about how they paid their dues" -- Quentin Johnson quent@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu