1. Re: [GEN] Random Thoughts, Item 7 FORTH still exists
FORTH is alive and well and strangely related to euphoria.
Forth exists for Windows and Linux and it is one of the only interpreted
languages that runs even faster than euphoria. qsheme is a fast scheme
written with a ForthLike interpreter.
Here are some results of running fib(30) 3 times on my computer.
qscheme 2.92 <-- very good
euphoria 2.46 <-- better
gforth 1.86 <-- best
euphoria to c 0.93 <-- good boost for only $29.00
C 0.18 <-- no suprise there.
These are three of the fastest interpreters in the world and I bet that
qscheme and gforth work in
a similar way to euphoria. If I was smarter I would write a euphoria to
qscheme or gforth translator.
Forth looks like this:-
: fib
dup 2 < if
drop 1
else
dup 1 recurse swap 2 - recurse +
then ;
scheme looks like this :-
( define ( fib n)
(if ( <= 2 n )
1
( + ( fib ( - n 1 ))
( fib ( - n 2 ))
)
)
)
Think I'll stick with euphoria.
An important feature of Forth is that it is Interactive, you can try
things in a console without having to write whole programs, I miss that
with euphoria.
