Re: Parsing timestamps?

On 20/06/2025 3:36 pm, minforth wrote:

Counter-example: a good number of my apps involve structs, arrays
and signal vectors in heap memory. Stack juggling? Absolutely not.
The code would be unreadable and a nightmare to debug.
 
Factoring in smaller code portions is often impossible because
you can't always distribute data, that inherently belongs together,
over separate words.
 
Then why factor, when with using named parameters = locals, the
code is already short, readable, maintainable, and bug-free.
 
Ask yourself why the Forth Scientific Library makes heavy use of
locals.
 
Of course things look different with simpler applications.

What you're saying is at the level you program, it hardly matters whether
it's Forth or something else.  It's true I have little to no reason to
use floating-point.  I did wonder why Julian Noble persisted with Forth.