Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: X11 bashing Message-ID: <.VYA9Y1@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 24 Apr 91 22:47:37 GMT References: <28063@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> > <=V6&^Q_.19037@cheers.Bungi.COM> <130080@uunet.UU.NET> <4_XAYQ1@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22 In article barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: > I agree about the language. The problem is parsing code like > foo bar blatz mumble tilderoll > You have to know each operator and how many items it pops/pushes off > the stack. You young kids today. You're spoiled by all this memory! Back in the old days where you were amazed when you actually had a full 64K to play with and the only language that could do the job right was Forth... in those days you learned how to program stack code. Use whitespace and comments! % babble foo bar % grubbish bubbles blatz % grubbish bubbles-x bubbles-y mumble % grubbish+deltax grubbish+deltay tilderoll % frobozz status | false -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" dup 0 <# # # #> type bl emit over + swap do i c@ fixup emit loop cr emit