Re: Parsing timestamps?

Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> writes:

Fundamentally. I explained the sensation at the end
of "Why Choose Forth". I've been able to tackle things I would never
have been to tackle with a C mindset. ( https://youtu.be/MXKZPGzlx14 )

I just watched this video and enjoyed it, but I don't understand how a C
mindset is different.  In C you pass stuff as function parameters
instead of on the stack: what's the big deal?  And particularly, the
video said nothing about the burning question of locals ;).

It seems to me all the examples mentioned in the video (parsing CSV
files or floating point numerals) are what someone called
micro-problems.  Today they much easier with languages like Python, and
back in Forth's heyday there was Lisp, which occupied a mindspace like
Python does now.

I agree that Thinking Forth is a great book.