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Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator WAS: OOP Preprocessor "eo4"

• Posted by Andy Cranston <Andy.Cranston at EUPHONY.CO.UK> Sep 18, 2000
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Ah good old FORTH!  Yep you could call things just about anything you wanted
with that!!!

I'm going to show my age here but does anyone remember a microcomputer
called the Jupiter Ace?  It was co designed in the UK by a chap called
Stephen Vickers (I think) who worked for Sinclair computers before that.
The Jupiter Ace went against the grain of the time and instead of shipping
with BASIC it shipped with FORTH.  After learning BASIC and then assembler
(well machine code as I didn't have an assembler!) the next language I
learnt was FORTH.  Would you believe the Jupiter Ace came with 8k of ROM and
3k of usable RAM for code?  You could (considering the time) still get
something relatively useful put together with this.

The Jupiter Ace was not a mainstream hit.  Several reasons were stated but
the one some of my crueler friends liked the best was that the case was made
of the same sort of plastic that yogurt cartons were - and in the same dull
white colour.  It also exhibited the same level of (un)durability 

I had the last laugh though - I wrote and sold my first ever bit of software
on the Jupiter Ace for the princely sum of one hundred pounds sterling!

Oh happy days...

A reminiscing Andy Cranston   

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Parnell [mailto:dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU]
Sent: 18 September 2000 12:06
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator WAS: OOP Preprocessor
"eo4" not generic


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Cranston" <Andy.Cranston at EUPHONY.CO.UK>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: DOS/Win and Linux path separator WAS: OOP Preprocessor "eo4"
not generic


> Out of historic interest does anyone know of other languages which allow
> spaces and other "strange" characters in identifier names?
>
> Regards,
>

My favorite language choices for strange characters would APL and FORTH. I'm
sure APL used at least 255 different characters, and in Forth, anything but
a space can be used!

: # * ?DUP + ;

This is a valid FORTH definition for a function called "#" that multiplies
two numbers together, and if the result isn't zero, adds a third number.


---
cheers
Derek.