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
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