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From: mj@myrias.UUCP (Michal Jaegermann)
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Subject: Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?
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Date: Tue, 24-Jun-86 21:18:46 EDT
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Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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Keywords: FORTH, threaded-code

>Maybe I'm not seeing the point about "threaded" languages -- you don't see
>C programmers claiming that the major advantage of C is that you can use

A fact that Forth is "threaded" is not a part of a language definition
but side-effect of the most popular implementation method.  It gives
very compact and flexible code with an ease of extensions.  The method
is far from beeing unique to Forth and there are some Forth
implementations which are not exatly "threaded".  At least not in the
sense described earlier in some response.  An extreme case is to have
the whole Forth as a huge 'case' statement in C.  (Yes, I have seen
something like that :-) ).

Michal Jaegermann
Myrias Research Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA