Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!orc!mipos3!esulzner From: esulzner@cadev4.intel.com (Eric Sulzner ~) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth, Creativity, Snobbishness, and the Future Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 90 03:20:54 GMT Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Organization: Corporate CAD, INTeL Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 25 In-reply-to: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM's message of 8 Jan 90 15:57:30 GMT In article <6047@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> dunn@uhccux.UUCP (John Dunn) writes: >Lastly, some comments on the Forth block editor. While the 64 >character line limit does tend to discourage comments - not a good >thing in any language - the block editor has one critical thing going >for it. It allows you to incrementally compile your code right from >the editor. An integrated ascii text editor could do that. Most >Lisp editors, for example, are smart editors that allow you to >compile individual functions. I would applaud such a Forth editor, >in fact I'm writing one in my spare time for the LMI UR/Forth that I >use. Naturally, I'm using a block editor to write it with. :-) Anyone else played with TILES forth.el under emacs yet? You can get a 2/3 screen editing window and a 1/3 screen forth window. Edit away, and send paragraphs, regions or the whole buffer to the forth window. It executes whatever it's sent (the forth window is not interactive if you're in it). TILES is a 32-bit Cforth posted to a couple of newsgroups lately (don't remember which, was this one?). I'm running it under Ultrix. It uses sequential files. I'm not wholly pleased yet (F-PC spoiled me), but the author(s?) say there's more to come. TILES outside of emacs is interactive. -- Eric Sulzner esulzner@cadev4.UUCP esulzner@cadev4.intel.com 54177