[chbot] Forth for embedded programming.

[Carl Ranson]

My impression is that its one of those languages that looks good at 
first glance but rapidly degrades as the project goes.

Even something as simple as generating the fibonacci sequence becomes 
unreadable

: fib ( n -- fib )
   0 1 rot 0 ?do  over + swap  loop drop ;

It seems that it is impossible to read the code without also considering the stack at each step.


On 3/11/2011 6:57 p.m., Mark Beckett wrote:
> We have a commercial system at work that is in forth.
> I've also looked at it (trying to work out some of the iner workings).
>
> There are a few packages out there, depending on whose flavour of OS you
> use.
>
> mark
>
> Carl Ranson wrote:
>> Has anyone had any real world experience with forth?
>> Its one of those ones that always seemed like it might be worth playing
>> with but I never got around to it.
>>
>> Is it still a practical language? Worth the effort?
>> C
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