8-bit FORTH

From: dave dameron <ddameron_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri Nov 13 09:33:43 1998

At 09:42 AM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Another project in the tapes is an 'OS' based on a Byte book called
>'Threaded Interpretive Languages' - just curious what opionions
>are out there about FORTH as an 8-bit os. It seemed like just
>the right balance of control - not as terse as assembly, and
>not as handcuff'd as BASIC.
>
I found FORTH to be _more_ terse than any other language, except maybe APL.
I tried a forth computer 80188 SBC with FORTH in EPROM (Used in the
"Radio-Elextronics" Robot - 1986, 1987), and never became a great fan. I
quess partly is I knew people who had pride on how complicated a program
they could write on a single line. Very difficult to read!!! 476#!_at_NXDUP&+
(just joking)
-Dave
Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 09:33:43 GMT