Sujet : Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 22. Mar 2024, 19:31:33
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:44:30 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
When I worked at the VA, we had a fancy audiometer that had Forth built
into it.
Later, I used a MIDI editor for the Atari ST, called "EditTrack", which
I believe was written in Forth. I met the authors at small Atari
Convention in North Hollywood. (Also saw IIRC Paul Haslinger showing
off some music from "Risky Business", and a talk by a tall, dour Mick
Fleetwood.)
Forth had it's uses. The core language with its RPN and heavily stack
oriented approach was arcane. However you could develop a domain specific
set of words so what the user typed in was very close to a natural
language sentence. They didn't have to know about the sausage factory
underneath.