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From: bouma@cs.purdue.EDU (William J. Bouma)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth and CS
Message-ID: <13700@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 05:12:58 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.155721.24659@isis.cs.du.edu> jwoehr@isis.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
>	Seriously, Bill, it seems to me from my admittedly worm's-eye
>view that about 66% of Comp Sci is parser and expression theory. Forth
>ain't got no expressions. We are right and the rest of the world is
>wrong, now get with the program, dude!!!

    (Where have I been?)
    
    Even if language recognition were useless I would still think it
    was worth studying.  How can we know the right way of doing something
    unless we explore all the possibilities?  I found it very interesting
    to discover what languages can be recognized by computer and how to
    write code to do such.  That Forth is so easy to parse makes it boring.
    Parsing is fun!

    If people want to criticize an area of CS, try Software Engineering.
-- 
Bill <bouma@cs.purdue.edu>