Le 04/03/2016 21:07, Anton Aylward a écrit :
On 03/04/2016 11:14 AM, jdd wrote:
Forth is integer only
Yes it used to be but we changed all that.
of course, math libraries exists for very long, but
Yes, its there; yes its part of the current standard. No, I've never implemented it. I've never needed it. But then the applications I've written in FORTH have never needed it. To be honest, I've never even needed 16 bits of arithmetic.
exactly it have much less drawbacks nowadays, math copro being always included, but I still guess Forth can be incredibly fast and compact. I always was a hacker, not a real programmer, but 20 years ago I played making code that could program itself, writing to it's own code segment, played with text buffer and it was fun. I also remember a text processor (sprint from Borland) that used similar pointer joke, being able to jump from start to end of a bible long book in a snap. I often feel like we do the same than 20 years ago with 1000x more powerful computers and very little enhancement :-) fairy tales of old timers :-)) jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org