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From: orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: RPN, fights for its life
Message-ID: <1588@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Aug 88 13:38:12 GMT
References: <248@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr)
Organization: Comp Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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In article <248@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM> anderson@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Anderson) writes:
>source.  Too long have I used the system  without using its full potential.

Too long have I used systems that are difficult and akward to use. Most
compilers for these sorts of systems come with an interface to the graphics
sound etc, so this leaves the question of what makes them most accessible
to the programmer. And that is what we've spent the last few months discussing.

>I can do scads of very, very useful things with this system.  

Yes, and i can do scads of useful things with my pocket calculator, doesn't
mean it is the best way to do it though.

>You don't need a massive expensive system to do meaningful work.
>This implementation of Forth (Blazin' Forth, by Scott Ballantyne) was snatched 
>from Quantum Link for pennies (well a few dollars).

Yes, and for a few dollars more, or a few weeks effort more, you could
build a preprocesor that would give you all these wonderful things
(which I deleted for brevity) and you could do it in a pleasant programming
environment. Do you see my point?

Regards,
===Fraser Orr (orr%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.ucl.ac.uk)