4rst@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Forrest Black) (08/10/89)
Greetings, NetBeings!
I have been playing with some PD Forth compilers on my AT klone for 3 months
now, and I am starting to realize why many Forth advocates seem quite
fanatical, nay, rabid, in their praises/defense of Forth. Once past the
initial confusion, one can indeed create small, fast, interesting programs
in a short time. This is not true of my milk language, Pascal, IMHO.
However, my learning process is hampered by the tendency for the Forths I have
to crash my machine unmercifully when I goof. I am used to this from testing
assembler programs on PC's, but there *must* be a better way. Has anyone out
there seen a (PD or not) Forth system that runs in protected mode on 286/386
machines? Uh, no OS/2 suggestions, please, thank you.
I may end up attempting to roll my own (yikes! man-months!), and I imagine I
would need some standards information. Is there some place I can anonymous
ftp to snag 83-standard description? And is there really a new ANSI standard
in the works?
I hope this isn't all old hat, and clogging the net. Thanks for your time!
--4rst
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