I worked in the embedded field for about 20+ years and never used it myself. No self respecting software developer would use it (at least for the military stuff that I worked on). As far as I saw, the code was almost impossible to maintain.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:26 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Create PDFs On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:07:26AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > McKown, John wrote: > >Not go anywhere? It was not designed as a general purpose language. > >IIRC, the creator created it to control telescopes. I think it has a > >larger audience in the embedded or process control world. Very much so. My roommate spent 10 years doing it for a living for the world's second largest manufacturer of electronic scales. (He got laid off, and hasn't been able to find anyone else to work for, though; the embedded space has almost entirely gone to C, and he doesn't ahve any C experience he can put on his resume.) > I believe that Jack Woehr also wrote a forth interpreter for VM/CMS > sometime ago. Dunno if it's his or not, but I've got a Forth for CMS tucked away somewhere. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.com http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390