Re: [stack] Re: Joy noob checking in!

Rodney D Price <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not to mention that you'd have to learn the low-level OS calls for either
> Linux, OSX, or Windows, plus the dirty details of OS device drivers, plus...
>  It makes me shudder just to think of it.
>

I was speaking from the reference frame of a person who wanted to do some
bare-metal coding. Please keep that in mind -- YOU may shudder, and rightly
so, but that doesn't mean the activity is inherently distasteful or bad;
it's actually profitable (profits are paid in the form of knowledge).

There exist several (many?) Forths that various people have written to run
> on top of an OS.  It appears that RainbowForth is not one of them.  If you
> really must start with Forth, download the free trial Forth from
> http://www.forth.com.  It at least is a commercial-grade implementation of
> Forth.  No guarantees on any of the others.


Fine... But there are no guarantees on anything you didn't pay for a
guarantee on. (Although as you say, Forth.com is a good outfit. I was also
positively impressed with MPE's "VFX Forth", and its demo version.)

But I don't think those things will appeal to Duke, based on his stated
interests; I think he's already passed Forth by.

-Rod


-Wm


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