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- From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Forth in the Marketplace
- Message-ID: <15128@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:44:26 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- nick@sw.stratus.com (Nicolas Tamburri) writes:
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- > Please don't waste time, is right. Dick Pountain published a rudimentary
- > Algebraic Notation input parser in BYTE a couple years back. It looked
- > pretty portable and extensible for anyone sick enough to want to use it. :-)
-
- There's a lot more than one "rudimentary" AN parser. At one Forth-BC meeting,
- two members showed their parsers. Both worked, but one was very clean and
- convenient. The developer of that one needed to handle algebraic equations
- easily for physics research, so he wrote a parser for Forth. You used one word
- (>math I think) to switch modes, wrote your equations using AN, then used
- (math> ?) to return to normal RPN.
-
- No, that's not a significant problem for Forth.
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