Re: The joy of FORTH (not)

Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
 

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:13:05 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

 

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:04:37 -0700, John Ames wrote:

 

... but the one has 512 KB Flash/144 KB RAM, and the other only 32
KB/16 KB.

 

512kiB seems to be the recommendation for MicroPython. For the 32kiB
one, I would want to use a cross-compiler for some more
resource-efficient language, like C.

 

Ridiculous! 32K should be more than enough to run a decent compiler
natively.

 

It never was. Even back in Apple II days, Apple didn't recommend using
something like a Pascal compiler on their 6502-based platform.

 
My first computer was a 12K (BCD charactersw) IBM 1401 running FORTRAN IV.
Better compiler writers in those days...
 

OK, I surrender. Somewhere I have a book about the first FORTRAN compiler
for (I think) the 704. Those guys were geniuses.

--
Pete