From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 05:23:48 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com cc: OpenDOS Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote: > Although forth isn't widely recognized by the programming > community, it can now run on the whole x86 line of computers. > There are more than a few public domain forth systems in > existence too. The problem with forth comes in two flavors. > First, there's not a whole lot of good beginner's documentation > or teaching material for the language. > Second, most of the forth systems in existence have specialized > in certain areas and excluded others. > As an example, f83 and f-pc short math. > Not that it's impossible to program well in math for > these packages, it's just that the authors of f83 didn't like math. > By extension, f-pc needed Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth > Programming to recover from inherited deficiencies placed or not placed > in f83. forth79 had more facilities for this in terms of a wider ranging > word set, (words in forth are commands). > f-pc allows compilation of .com files from working applications > so these can run as stand-alone products if desired. Are you proposing that OpenDOS sources be ported to forth? :o) Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Want the DR-DOS source code? Visit Caldera's website: www.caldera.com