Re: [stack] Backus's Turing Award Lecture and Joy.

[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I wonder... If a statically typed, well thought out language like
> Cat was implemented for one of these tiny processors, and was
> supplied with the same REPL-like environment as Forth, could it
> find another niche there?

strongForth is far from Cat's abilities, but it's probably worth
noting that its typechecking was originally developed to help the
author manage all the different ways to access memory on the embedded
processor he was programming for.

http://home.vrweb.de/stephan.becher/forth/doc/chapter2.htm

> -Rod

-Billy