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[ColorForth] Let's talk philosophy

I can imagine that there are quite a few language creators who got started
because, in the end, they really didn't want to become Fortran or C experts. 

I can't.


I can also find examples where the idea of things getting locked in wrong,
forever, is brought into Forth, just like the 10k word dictionaries you
mentioned. Forth provides a solid footing for a different perspective, but I 
suppose it doesn't keep one from being myopic.


10K word dictionaries are probably built on top of large bloated
systems that need to be dealt with in all their complexity.  I
don't see this as myopia -- perhaps rather an eye toward some
specific problem of theirs (I'm using this system, wouldn't it be
nice if I had a good programming language to manage it with?).


computing heritage, and when I ask a question like, "Will the 25x ever
compile C," what I'm really asking is when we've been doing this for 600
years instead of 60, will someone say, "You know, 57% of all these computing 
devices use at least four of these six algorithms.  Maybe this should be a
library..."?


Well, ignoring the wild thought that people 600 years in the future
wouldn't have any necessary processing units built into them and
trivial/constant tasks farmed out to nanites... No, I really don't
understand your point at all.  If it's cheaper to program six
algorithms onto the biochip of 60 years yonder, I'm sure that it'll
be done.


I fear that none of us will ever learn to do what Chuck does so adeptly.
He'll be the Tesla of computing.


I love it when people praise Chuck in such a way that they put
him on a pedastle high over the pathetic human race.  Yes, I'm
sure he does too.
I think on his Web site, Chuck describes how he thinks using color to provide 
functional syntax cues frees the brain from being locked in an interpretive
mode and allows it to focus on the task at hand.  That's not only an
intriguing theory, but also a key to understanding how altering a tool can
alter the tool-user. Forth gives a programmer an arena in which to factor a 

"Lo!  My eye doth fall upon a word, and my mind doth immediately
percieve in this word it's kind and my memory doth subsequently
inform me of its exact effect -- no scanning need I perform, around
the word to discover what pseudosyntatic words may be affecting its
meaning, for I have seen the Light, and it is green."



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