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Re: intro and question
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 17 Jun 2002 02:14:08 GMT
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Jim Choate <ravage@einsteinSTOPSPAM.ssz.com>
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On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Steve Baker wrote:
> Ralph Hempel wrote:
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> > If you're feeling adventurous, you can try my pbForth language.
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> Forth isn't by any stretch of the imagination a good language to
> learn as your *first* language - although it *is* pretty cool for
> writing embedded system software on teeny-tiny processors once you
> grok the whole programming thing.
It's a fine language as long as the potential user understands how to use
dual-stack based languages/systems (ie TIL's). I suggest folks who want to
learn Forth get themselves a good grounding in RPN. From there it's the
same old same old with respect to learning how to program.
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When I die, I would like to be born again as me.
Hugh Hefner
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jchoate@open-forge.org www.open-forge.org
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| (...) Forth isn't by any stretch of the imagination a good language to learn as your *first* language - although it *is* pretty cool for writing embedded system software on teeny-tiny processors once you grok the whole programming thing. ---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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