gnupic: Re: [gnupic] is OO any use?
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] is OO any use?
From:
David McNab ####@####.####
Date:
19 Aug 2005 23:19:51 +0100
Message-Id: <43065B01.6010208@rebirthing.co.nz>
####@####.#### wrote:
> The biggest impediment is the FORTH language itself. Reverse polish, the
> word concept and stack diagrams take a bit of a learning curve, however
> once you are on to it, productivity is greatly enhanced. I particularly
> like the top down programming paradigm featured in Brodie's book Thinking
> Forth ... as it lends itself naturally both to incremental hardware design
> and software development.
Forth is not everyone's cup of tea. I know for myself, when reviewing
any piece of code I wrote and abandoned 6 months ago, it takes me 3-10
times longer to 'grok' the Forth code than it does for the Python code.
But - Forth when reasonably well written is way easier than assembler.
Hence my notion of this forth implementation being used as a compiler
backend for other languages.
Cheers
David
