#languages
I have Multi-Forth for my Amiga, and worked professionally with FORTH about
seven years ago. Like you said, you can get a program up and running in
FORTH faster than in any other language. And, like some of those who
answered you already said, FORTH code can be very difficult to read.
FORTH, like most other languages has it's nitch. It is great for
programming quick, non-maintained code. This is why it's main application
is in machine control type operations. The code is needed yesterday, must
be very quick to implement correctly, and will be thrown out when a new
requirement comes along. This is the most important part. FORTH is not
ment to be maintained. FORTH does allow development so fast that you must
ask yourself, should I waste my time trying to figgure out what this old
program does, or develop a new program from scratch in the same length of
time.
Have you ever read Brodie's book _Thinking FORTH_ ? It is about the FORTH
programming philosophy, which is different than the philosophy of other
languages. It is probably most in line with the philosophy of Object
Oriented Programming.
go FORTH! Bill Roberts in Ellettsville In. via Whap!