Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!cbnewse!cwpjr From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: What makes Forth Forth Summary: Here it is! Message-ID: <1990Dec6.224549.6391@cbnewse.att.com> Date: 6 Dec 90 22:45:49 GMT References: <9012051459.AA18739@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <12692@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 26 > with it? C may indeed suck, but try comparing FORTH to the myriads of > other languages out there, including the other interactive ones. Then > tell us what makes FORTH different. > -- > Bill FORTH being one of the fastest interpreters has a lot to do with it: Most other interpreters seem like batch-job shells! The architecture of FORTH: Most other interpreters aren't *simply* exstensible and as well factored on the "kernal level". The architecture of FORTH: Words for subroutines! Yeah! Support for all major programming paradigms including OOP built-in! Since 1971! Yeah! The architecture of FORTH: Designed as a *doable* processor (being emulated at first ) that happens to run a language! The architecture of FORTH: Simplicity and elegance with a learned twist. --Clyde Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com