Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!cit-vax!polecat!clark From: clark@polecat.caltech.edu (Clark Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Object-oriented Forth Message-ID: <3284@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 18:03:56 EDT Article-I.D.: cit-vax.3284 Posted: Mon Jul 20 18:03:56 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 01:31:16 EDT References:<755@haddock.ISC.COM> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: clark@polecat.Caltech.EDU (Clark Brooks) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 12 Keywords: Object-oriented Forth I work on the FITH project at Caltech. It is very similar to FORTH in syntax (identical), and in that it is a TIL. The flavor, however is strongly influenced by Smalltalk. Named local variables and arguments help avoid the impenetrability of rudimentary FORTH's. Unfortunately, it is big. It is happy in about 2 Meg. And, it is relatively slow. We compare it to Smalltalk to make it seem fast. I find it a very pleasurable language to program in. It is, on the other hand, fast enough to do real work in, and it combines the advantages of FORTH and Smalltalk for whipping up projects. We are working on documentation now. With luck you will kear more in finite time. Take whatever action seems appropriate at the time. -- E**2