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- From: dwp+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug Philips)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Documenting
- Summary: something salient, shortly stated, sadly seldom satoric
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 03:03:10 GMT
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- In article <C0CsnE.CrC@starnine.com> mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
- +They [screens] are also incredibly wasteful... if you only enter one 1-line
- +definition on a screen, you are wasting all the rest of the storage
- +space, as screens must occupy 1024 characters, regardless of how
- +much is white-space and what is not. Just the remainder of whitespace
- +on each line following the last non-white character is a waste.
- +
- +All because of the inability to handle an "end-of-line" character!
- +And what OS doesn't provide THAT?
- [Tedious list of the first line "documentation" for a group of screens
- elided. -dwp]
- +Simple. Each is in it's own file. Clean, clear, and no waste of space.
-
- Whoa a minute here. Most OS's (those that have EOL characters), also have
- file systems with allocations in units of sectors (or multiple-sector
- unitss), and bunches of tiny files will waste a lot of space. If this is
- really an issue, then let's be clear about it.
-
- +I always wonder how many proponents of screens have never tried
- +a good file implemtation.
- +
- +The fact that many still argue for screens is a statement as to
- +why Forth will never be accepted by the mainsteam.
-
- How about: The fact that many still argue over screens vs. files is a
- statement as to why Forth will never be accepted by the mainstream?
-
- Is Forth so rigid as to require one and disallow the other?
-
- -Doug
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