On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:54:35PM +0400, Dmitry Pavlov wrote: > Hugh, > > I see your point, and I have nothing against Forth per se, > and rewriting the whole thing in Forth could be an > interesting research, but well, sometimes we need > to deliver programs in time.
Re: Delivering programs on time. In my experience, type-checking (perferably at compile time for languages where this is meaningful) is an essential tool for rapid development. At compile time, it prevents many bugs. At run-time, it makes it possible to detect bugs closer to where they occur. Now I've once heard of a statically typed Forth. The implementation ran in a 16-bit environment, if I remember correctly. Is that still any kind of a live project? -- hendrik ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
