Re: is OO any use?
David McNab <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote: > The biggest impediment is the FORTH language itself. Reverse polish, the > word concept and stack diagrams take a bit of a learning curve, however > once you are on to it, productivity is greatly enhanced. I particularly > like the top down programming paradigm featured in Brodie's book Thinking > Forth ... as it lends itself naturally both to incremental hardware design > and software development. Forth is not everyone's cup of tea. I know for myself, when reviewing any piece of code I wrote and abandoned 6 months ago, it takes me 3-10 times longer to 'grok' the Forth code than it does for the Python code. But - Forth when reasonably well written is way easier than assembler. Hence my notion of this forth implementation being used as a compiler backend for other languages. Cheers David