> >>> was too late). A machine designed to be run on Forth would have been > >>> unbelievably powerful from the late 70s to the mid 90s (it would be > >>> more painful now than the x86 legacy, but still).
A small data point here is that Sun still use Forth in their Sparc workstations. Their system prompt is really a Forth interpreter... I don;t know where the interpreter resides, presumably not in Sparc since its a RISC but interesting that they still use it. (Or they did last time I used a Sparc - 4 years ago?) Alan G. Author of the Learn to Program website http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list