Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!well!jax From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Infix operators Summary: Orr vs The World of Forth; Orr 3.5, World 2.5 Keywords: Parallel, controllers Message-ID: <6882@well.UUCP> Date: 22 Aug 88 06:59:22 GMT References: <8808121826.AA23206@jade.berkeley.edu> <1575@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 22 It's late and too tedious to edit long postings! But Fraser Orr, self appointed Ahriman to all the Amesha Spentas of Forth here in comp.lang. forth has delivered some mighty blows! Nonetheless, what can we say but, "if you are not a true believer, Brother Orr, you cannot know the joys of Total Immersion in Forth ..." One point of fact though that we wish to quibble with you: your reference to a list of projects, predominantly control projects, done in Forth as a "list of totally inappropriate uses of Forth". As of 1988, it looks like Forth is taking the embedded control industry by storm. Reasons: tiny, complete programming environment; ease of translation of concept to reality; body of talented, well-trained Forth programmers to do the job; amazing power of Forth-oriented microchips like the Zilog Super8 and the Harris RTX. ********** well!jax@lll-winken.arpa jax@chariot.UUCP " Forth is the answer, what was the question?" JAX on GEnie