Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth "Pre-Compiler" (long) Message-ID: <2651@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 9 Aug 88 17:29:33 GMT References: <8808032106.AA01436@jade.berkeley.edu> <1563@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 29 In article <1563@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes: }>seem to get along just fine with only an editor -- could it be that Forth is }>so easy to test and debug that no expensive development aids are necessary? }>On top of this, the Forth compiler, i.e. the outer interpreter, can be }>modified to one's own needs, so the compiler itself becomes the most important }>development tool, ala the "integrated environment" so many other compiler }>vendors are promoting of late.) }> }If I were being equally glib(-:) I might ask, how come if forth is so much }easier to program in, have forth programmers not managed to produce these }essential tools in and for forth? Let's see now, Laxen & Perry F83 has: editor decompiler assembler debugger multitasker print spooler listing printer and of course, compiler/interpreter Sounds like *more* than most so-called integrated environments offer! No fancy windowing/menu system, but what do you expect from 26K ? :-) -- {harvard,uunet,ucbvax}!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=- AT&T: (412)268-3053 (school) ARPA: RALF@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU |"Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make. FIDO: Ralf Brown at 129/31 | Tact means not noticing them." --Arthur Schnitzler BITnet: RALF%B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA -=-=- DISCLAIMER? I claimed something?