Re: Problem with ColorForth 2.0

Hello Ray,

First thanks for the helpful pointers.  That's
some interesting code on the editor.

As for the "haters" part, perhaps I was unclear.
I was not talking about YOU.  If my blog gave
that impression I need to clean it up.  But certain
people at c.l.f. that choose to use code like
yours as "proof" that programming in ColorForth
is like "programming with boxing gloves on".

Yes you can look up the actual emit codes
if that's what you want to do.  It's also possible
to do that with ANS forth or C for that matter.
But if the only way ANS forth programmers
could do "Hello world" was to look up codes
in an ASCII table and enter them in reverse
order to the editor then C programmers would
use that as a counter example to ANS Forth
too.

As for it "only" taking 3 minutes to look up
the codes....I can type 59 words per minute.
(Admittedly not that fast using Dvorak), so
relatively speaking that's not that fast.  It
doesn't matter if your program doesn't require
much text output.  But say if someone
wanted to recreate Zork in ColorForth?
It all depends on if your "hello world" program
is an exercise to itself or a building block
for something else you want to do.

Regards,

John M. Drake

----- Original Message ----
From: Ray St. Marie <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [colorforth] Problem with ColorForth 2.0

and in fun...

As much as you will 'hate' to admit it, the version you call the
'haters' code... ahem cough cough,.. MY CODE :-) took all of 3 minutes
to look up the letters, which I stack on the stack as I found them
with the code

ic @

every time I landed on a letter, then just put them in the order that
that were on the stack, which in essence reversed the letters
properly, set up a for loop to render them... Worked the first time,
always worked since then... will most likely be the most efficient
version of the code for all strings under X-too-many-to-bother-with.
:)

Ray

-- 
Raymond St. Marie ii,
colorforthray.info

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