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From: rob@idacom.uucp (Rob Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: would it still be Forth? (A thought experiment)
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.084456.8790@idacom.uucp>
Date: 26 Sep 90 08:44:56 GMT
Organization: IDACOM, a division of Hewlett-Packard
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>compiler than to write LISP code got me thinking. If he'd left the FORTH
>language available under the LISP language (which, in fact, he might just
>have done) I think it would still be FORTH.

>What do y'all think?

 I've been toying with the idea of doing this with DOS and botForth on the
 PC.  The input stream is interpreted by looking up parsed strings in the
 dictionary.  If it doesn't exist, try to convert it to a number.  Failing
 this, pass the rest of the input stream on to DOS to be processed as a DOS
 command.  The prompt could even be C:>.  As a matter of fact, if you only
 typed in DOS commands, you wouldn't realize that there was a Forth running!
 (When was the last you checked your command line?)

 Q. to DOS programmers: Is this possible?
 Q. to UNIX programmers: Is this possible?

Rob