julian v. noble

Have you tried Forth?
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Julian V. Noble
Professor Emeritus of Physics
jvn@lessspamformother.virginia.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/~jvn/

"Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science."
-- Bertolt Brecht, "Galileo".

julian v. noble

Anything that you can do in Scheme or other Lisp dialect can be done in
Forth. The problem is, you have to do it yourself--the language does not
contain constructs for doing such things ab initio. You have to build them
from the things the language does provide. (In that way it is a lot like
Lisp.) Have a look at my computational methods homepage (left over from
the last time I taught the course):

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/

You should look especially at the links

A Beginner's Guide to Forth (HTML) ,

The ANS Forth Standard Do***ent ,

and

Forth system and example programs .

For a quick tell about Forth you might like to look at an article
"Freedom of Assembly" under the link

Developing assembly language programs in Forth .

Finally, you can ask questions of the people at comp.lang.forth .
They are generally pretty helpful to people who want to learn about
the language. Most of them use it to earn their livings and do so
for reasons they will be glad to share with you. Some of them may
have special knowledge of the things you want to do and can point
you in the right direction better than I can. Have fun.

--
Julian V. Noble
Professor Emeritus of Physics
jvn@lessspamformother.virginia.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/~jvn/

"Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science."
-- Bertolt Brecht, "Galileo".

alec mihailovs

I'd like to make a living from knowing just one language :-) I couldn't do
that with other languages though... Perhaps, Forth is what I missed?

Alec

richard fateman

A similar language is PostScript. Yes, the language that
runs in printers is like Forth.

For those of you who like distributed computing, you can
send jobs to a postscript printer and get answers back.

In the early Apple Laserwriter printers there was a lot
of memory (for the time). More than in many computers.
There was, I believe, some experimentation in the direction
of using the memory in the printer for other purposes than
intended by the printer driver.
RJF