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- From: meyer@dbsun.uucp (Don Meyer)
- Subject: Re: $15 Forth-like Language with source in C on disk !
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.125203.16634@dbsun.uucp>
- Keywords: Good, fast, cheap !
- Organization: BioMerieux-Vitek, St. Louis Mo.
- References: <1670@sousa.ltn.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:52:03 GMT
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- In article <1670@sousa.ltn.dec.com> secrist@kxovax.enet.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) writes:
- > [...] The book is called "Write Your Own Programming
- >Language Using C++" by Norman E. Smith and is published by Wordware.
- >It was easy to turn into straight C (even under VAX/VMS) if you're
- >not using something like Borland Turbo C++ (which is what the author
- >used).
-
- Hopefully I'm wrong, but if it was truly easy to convert from "C++" to C
- than I suspect one of two situations exist. Either it is an application
- that really doesn't lend itself to the strengths of C++, or it is badly
- written C++. :-( To be fair, a third possibility is that you (the
- converter) are really, really fast! :-)
-
- How FORTH-like is it? I'm still intending to get a small FIG-like :-)
- FORTH up and running on a 68k platform. The "real" code for the
- instrument is written in C++, but I'd like to tuck a small subversive
- FORTH environment on the board for debugging etc. Even though I'm
- paid to write C/C++, FORTH was my first "real" language and I miss it!
-
- Don
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