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From: philm@astroatc.UUCP (Phil Mason)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?
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Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 09:47:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 18 09:47:27 1986
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In article <5654@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> FORTH appears to be the only major language that uses threaded code as the
>> primary means of expressing algorithms internally. Other languages and
>> applications do use threaded code but by no means even close to the extent
>> that FORTH does. Threaded code is used for compactness and simplicity.
>
>Have a look at the Spitbol compilers sometime.

Are these compilers real or just facetiously named? If they are real,
what's the story on them. It's news to me.



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