Joe wrote:
>
> At 03:20 AM 6/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >No, Charles Moore created FORTH as a notation system for teaching
> >mathematics -- it just happened that when the notation system was
> >converted to a programming language that it became handy for such
> >things as controlling telescopes.
> >--
>
> Are you sure you're not confusing it with Ken Iverson and APL? He
> created it as a mathematical teaching language.
Blame it on lack of sleep. Somehow my fatigued brain crossed the
histories of APL and Forth. Both wonderful languages, and both
essentially write-only.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Fri Jun 19 1998 - 22:23:09 BST