Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boris From: boris@charon.mit.edu (Boris N Goldowsky) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth and Children ? Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 88 07:23:17 GMT References: <27521@felix.UUCP> <4342@cup.portal.com> <3380@haddock.ISC.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 13 In-reply-to: karl@haddock.ISC.COM's message of 8 Apr 88 18:54:56 GMT One nice thing about Forth for learning is that you get instant feedback - no need to compile the whole program before you can see if it works, you can try out each definition as you go. In article <3380@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) mentioned Logo and Comal as other good learning languages - I'd never heard of the latter (what's it like?) but Logo cetainly is well designed for the job... Sad that it's so slow... Forth, of course, gives you more ability to do things not anticipated by the language designers - but I'm not convinced that this is a necessarily a good thing for learning. For example, some built in error checking can reduce frustration in programming.