Re: Fouth
"Grape Vine" wrote (something like):
> I have not received any responses about MVP Forth.
> I'll guess you didn't like it.
That's "FORTH", not "Fourth." Apparently one of the the systems that Charles
Moore used didn't support file names longer than 5 characters, and so the
name became permanantly truncated.
I used to code in polyForth, in my "early" days of programming, working with
a real-time network of access control systems. I've gone back to it now and
then, but the experience has always been painful.
In some ways, it's a lot like Euphoria in the handling of namespaces,
forward references, and so on. But there is no dynamic memory allocation -
it's all static, embedded into the dictionary space.
The language made sense back then, when memory was expensive and processors
were slow. But these days, unless you are dealing with embedded systems, I
can't see any reason someone would want to use FORTH.
-- David Cuny
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