Re: New Linux 4word

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:01:42AM -0400, Mark Slicker wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>
> >>I don't know what is meant by a "test suite", or how that
> >>would be a signifigant "milestone".
> >
> >Do you really not know what a test suite is?
>
> When I wrote this, I didn't know what you intended by a "test suite",
> and had no rationale from you as to why this would be an acomplishment. In
> all my programming I've never written such a thing as a test suite, I
> think it legitimate to ask this. In c.l.f, you bring up my  message, to
> say that you "got flamed for bringing up the test suite subject in the
> colorforth mailing list." What purpose does this serve other than to
> tarnish the reputation of this list?

I shouldn't have used the word flamed. I felt a bit misunderstood,
that expresses it better. I apologize.
What Jeff Fox said, I've missed. He is in my kill-file.

> >I don't expect anybody to be willing to work on this, but
> >I think it is silly to renounce it usefulness.
>
> No one has renounced the usefulness of a test suite, and in fact this
> would be impossible in this context as no actual proposal has been made.

Okay, so we agree on this.
I want to have colorforth running on more hardware. If I make changes
to accomplish this, I have a responsability for testing that I
haven't broken anything. This would be purpose of the test.
[Actually, the best thing would be to define the test first.
But I can't run colorforth yet :-( . I got some advise
from Tim Neitz. He happens to work on the other side of the canal
in front of my house.]

I have now a disassembly with the mix of 16 and 32 bit code
at the start sorted out. And a crawler that finds all code starting
from the macro and forth vocabularies (is that the proper word).
Next thing is to extract label names from the macro and forth name
lists. But the tax guys are after me.

> Mark

Groetjes Albert

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