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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: "Easy" way to put "AI" in realtime embedded systems?
Summary: FORTH for Z80 Rom-Able Request...
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.191533.945@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 19:15:33 GMT
References: <5495@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Apr16.155126.5186@sagpd1> <1991Apr17.143949.25843@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
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In article <1991Apr17.143949.25843@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>, yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (Dojun Yoshikami) writes:
> In article <1991Apr16.155126.5186@sagpd1> monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes:
> >
> >    I may be totally wrong in this but aren't FORTH and LISP close relatives?
> >It seems to me that FORTH was the foundation of LISP. Now as I said before
> >I may be remembering wrong or have the wrong "child" of FORTH in mind, or I
> >may just be remembering a LISP that was developed from FORTH as an exercise
> >by some one I knew or read about. Is there anyone out there that can set me
> >straight or re-enforce this??
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Monty Saine
> 
> Ho boy, here we go.
>
Deleted the really nice "go"
> 
> If you're wondering why I'm so interested in Forth, currently I'm in the
> process of making a few small microprocessor controlled robotics projects,
> and the easiest way to program them is in Forth.  If there's anyone who knows
> where to get a ROM-able Z80 Interpreter, Let me know (I'm too lazy to write
> my own!)
> 
> May the Forth be with you!!!!!!    	FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN
> 
> DY 
> 
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> D M Yoshikami  :-) ;-) :-) | Internet: yoshikami@usuhsb.ucc.usuhs.nnmc.navy.mil
> May the Forth be with you! | Bitnet  : yoshikami@usuhsb.bitnet
> ***  !!xob X*NU V METSYS T&TA eht ni renosirp dleh gnieb m`I  !pleH  !pleH  ***
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> 
> P.s. I program in practically any language I can get my hands on, including
> Ada, C, and, on rare occasions (!) COBOL (arrgh!).  I figure, each language
> has some reason for existing, so I try to exploit that, especially if the
> language is tailored to a certain problem.  I will not write windowy SQL 
> databasey things in Forth, just like I would REFUSE to write small rommable 
> hardware control (robotics) projects in RPG.  

Hi there!

I've done a LOT of this. I ported a FIG-FORTH for my buddies
Z-80 SBC back in 1980. By 1984 he employed it in a Naval Contract
implementing Spread Spectrum Battlefield relay radios, or was it
remote data acq. radio relays, anyway the Naval Officers LOVED IT.
His interactive remote diagnostics didn't hurt either.

So anyway this man is Mike Simon, (815) 874-2296
Space-Time Productions

Talk to him as he currently controls our 8-bit products,
and you guys may have more to talk about....


Take care & have Fun, Clyde