Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:08:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

I also briefly was paid to port FORTH to an 8086 board. Not a PC, a part
of a minicomputer. I was impressed by how small it was, but utterly
unimpressed by how you were supposed to document it.

I did several projects with FORTH. I'll agree documentation was a problem
particularly with the early BLOCK system. The good part was the ability to
create a task specific interface with almost a natural language input that
was easily extensible.

https://archive.org/details/
R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretiveLanguagesTheirDesignAndImplementationByteBooks1981

It wasn't specifically FORTH but I found it fascinating compared to the
Wizard book. (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs). I could
understand what Scheme was doing but a little voice kept nagging 'Why?'