[OT] Re: FORTH

2005-06-07 Thread Walt Pawley
On 6/8/05 6:54 AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote on [OT] Re: FORTH >> I was just wondering what the magic was that you saw in FORTH. My >> understanding is that it is a very low level language. Gee. I must have missed this one! One upon a time, I worked with Forth quite a bit, even deve

[OT] Re: FORTH

2005-06-07 Thread Joel Rees
I was just wondering what the magic was that you saw in FORTH. My understanding is that it is a very low level language. Have you ever played with LISP? Think of FORTH as LISP without parenthesis underneath everything, except that it never developed enough of a following to develop its own v