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- From: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Subject: Re: Free Forth
- Message-ID: <BtCvML.Lzu@starnine.com>
- Sender: mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas)
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:54:20 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.025506.659@csi.uottawa.ca> <1992Aug14.132732.10393@exu.ericsson.se> <1992Aug14.173059.20181@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug14.173059.20181@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> pazsan@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Paysan) writes:
- >
- >bigFORTH is a
- >platform oriented Forth (now for the Atari ST, a 386 version will
- >follow), highly optimized and really big (but not too big to
- >teach a beginner).
-
- I would propose that "platform-oriented" Forths (which I take to
- mean a Forth that is designed to mate particularly well with a
- particular operating system) should not care at all about their
- size.
-
- In these kind of Forths, the emphasis should NOT be on 4K kernels and
- compiling into the absolute barest minimum space possible. As long
- as larger size resultss from increased functionality (a more powerful Forth)
- I'll gladly make that trade.
-
- The trend is more & more memory in the machine, so what do I care
- if a Forth takes up 100k or 500k if I have Megs to work with?
-
- This is particularly true in platforms such as UNIX, AMiga, Mac... platforms
- that allow more than one application to be loaded at a time, and in the
- case of UNIX and the AMiga, provide true pre-emtive multitasking.
- I suppose WIndows on the PC falls into this category (even though, like
- the Mac, it's not pre-emptive).
-