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["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

jdd wrote:
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> 
>> If speed is an issue, a purely interpreted language
> 
> Forth is not an interpreted langage. only uses a small number of
> assembly langage function and recursive calls. 

No, the Forth text is interpreted once into bytecodes, then the
bytecodes are interpreted from there to execute the machine code
functions.  Still interpretation, but much faster.  Just like Billy G's
original Microsoft Basic in the early '80's.

But any new function is
> added to the underlying system and available instantly, and all this is
> done function by function. very simple for structured programming.

True enough. I was fascinated by Forth for a while, but never got to use
it professionally.

John Perry

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