Re: value-flavoured structures

On 28/09/2024 12:13 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:

Ruvim <ruvim.pinka@gmail.com> writes:

Such dialects, or better said, descendants, already exist.
For example: Factor, StrongForth.

Probably useless for embedded applications.

Agreed.

 
Factor is sort of a Lisp dialect that is garbage collected, I think.  So maybe
not great for embedded.  StrongForth, I thought, was like regular Forth but
with a type system.  That shouldn't be a problem unless there are other
issues.  Ada is strongly typed, and C++ is sort-of-strongly typed, and both
are used in embedded apps all the time.

Is it not the endless comparison between forth and other languages
that invites all these 'innovations'?  If there were no comparison,
there'd be no standards, no conformity, nor those things that make
one language and their programmers indistinguishable from another.
There might be creativity instead of imitation.