On Aug 21, 10:57 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Anyway, I'm looking forward to hear why overuse of the return stack is a
> big reason why people use GCC rather than Forth. (Why GCC? What about
> other C compilers?) Me, in my ignorance, I thought it was because C was
> invented and popularised by the
On Aug 24, 5:16 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Anyway, as someone else once said, studying a subject like CS isn't done
> by reading. It's done by writing out answers to problem after problem.
> Unless you've been doing that, you haven't been studying.
What about using what I learned to write programs
On Aug 24, 4:17 pm, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> > [SNIP ;]
>
> > The real problem here is that C, Forth and C++ lack automatic garbage
> > collection. If I have a program in which I have to worry about memory
> > leaks (as described above), I w
On Aug 24, 9:24 am, David Kastrup wrote:
> Anybody worth his salt in his profession has a trail of broken things in
> his history.
When I was employed as a Forth programmer, I worked for two brothers.
The younger one told me a funny story about when he was 13 or 14 years
old. He bought a radio at
On Aug 22, 11:12 am, John Bokma wrote:
> And my
> experience is that a formal study in CS can't compare to home study
> unless you're really good and have the time and drive to read formal
> books written on CS. And my experience is that most self-educaters don't
> have that time.
I've read a lo
On Aug 21, 12:18 pm, ehr...@dk3uz.ampr.org (Edmund H. Ramm) wrote:
> In <2d59bfaa-2aa5-4396-bd03-22200df8c...@x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> Hugh
> Aguilar writes:
>
> > [...]
> > I really recommend that people spend a lot more time writing code,
> > and a lot
On Aug 22, 3:40 pm, 1001nuits <1001nu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another thing you learn in studying in University is the fact that you can
> be wrong, which is quite difficult to accept for self taught people.
Yet another thing you learn in studying in University, is the art of
apple polishing! LOL
On Aug 21, 12:32 pm, Alex McDonald wrote:
> "Scintilla" gets about 2,080,000 results on google; "blather" gets
> about 876,000 results. O Hugh, you pseudo-intellectual you!
>
> > with gutter language such as
> > "turd"
>
> About 5,910,000 results. It has a long history, even getting a mention
> in
On Aug 21, 5:29 am, Alex McDonald wrote:
> On 21 Aug, 06:42, Standish P wrote:
> > Admittedly, I am asking a question that would be thought
> > provoking to those who claim to be "experts" but these experts are
> > actually very stingy and mean business people, most certainly worse
> > than Bill
On Aug 18, 6:13 pm, Standish P wrote:
> > Mostly it had a "snowball's chance" because it was never picked up by
> > the CS gurus who, AFAIK, never really took a serious look at it.
>
> Its quite possible that the criticism is unfair, but dont you think
> that in part some responsibility must be bo
On Aug 18, 6:23 pm, Standish P wrote:
> On Aug 17, 6:38 pm, John Passaniti wrote:
>
> > You asked if Forth "borrowed" lists from Lisp. It did not. In Lisp,
> > lists are constructed with pair of pointers called a "cons cell".
> > That is the most primitive component that makes up a list. Forth
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