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From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Merits of Forth
Message-ID: <5228@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 20:35:30 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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lowry@src.honeywell.com (Dave Lowry) writes:

> With all this discussion of the merits of Forth, I wonder if somebody could
> comment on the usefulness of a language that merrily accepts things like:
> 
> : 1 2 ;
> 
> resulting in:
> 
> 1 1 + . 4 ok

It means that the language is powerful and flexible.  It also means that you
don't have a huge bloated compiler that takes a long time to load, a long time
to run, crashes frequently, has "bug fixes" offered every month and _still_
doesn't manage to catch all the errors that you make "because the compiler
checks all that stuff".

It also mean that you have to learn good programming practices.  Of course, you
should do that anyways.  :)