Re: OT: Re: pyton & perl
Ilya Martynov wrote:
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> JR> All you have to understand about forth, is that no word means what you
> JR> think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you
> JR> weren't looking :)
> JR> On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just
> JR> about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa
> JR> :)
>
> Yeah. Forth is really cool! What's a pity it is not popular nowdays.
what do you mean it's not popular? sun still uses it as 'natural'
language of its workstations (and probably servers too) - just like in
old times you could boot up computer (the first home computers) and have
basic loaded along with some minimal environment to edit/load/save
programs (sort of like OS) now you can boot the sun computer and have
fun in forth!
;-)
erik
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