Some of you may remember (and some wish we could forget) a ramble I
posted about six months back about traffic lights and language design
and all the weird ways we get meaning out of such a small # of
symbols. One of the things I'd pondered was using color for syntax.
Well, somebody else did. I just stumbled on colorForth!
In Forth, a new word is defined by a preceeding colon, words inside a
definition are compiled, outside are executed. In colorForth a new
word is red, green words are compiled, yellow executed. This use of
color further reduces the syntax, or punctuation, needed.
http://www.colorforth.com/cf.html
Red, green and yellow! It's the language of traffic lights!
This is, of course, programmed on a 27-key keyboard. That being all
the symbols you possibly need in Color Forth. And you thought Perl
was compact!
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Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One
Commence simultaneous panic on my mark.
