[ColorForth] Let's talk philosophy

[Mark Slicker <maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Roger Ivie wrote:

> Mark Slicker wrote:
> > What I would like to see colorForth become is a highley collaberative
> > environment. Currently most of us just publish code on our respective
> > sites. This code needs to be self contained, where it might be the case
> > some words are common or there exists common structure which can be
> > factored.
> 
> I don't mean to be rude, but that's precisely the sort of thinking that
> gave us the large ANS vocabulary. I'm not interested in other people's
> code because it doesn't solve my problem. For me to have useful code, I
> have to invent it so I know what it does and why it works that way.
>

I think there is value in collaberation. Maybe a few like minded people
would get together to take Forth in certain direction. I don't think 
people are so different everone needs there own system, however I
don't think people are so much the same that one system should suit
everyone. I guess I am person who uses other peoples code, and I find no
shame in doing so. Chuck's code in particular is very good, I can
understand it perfectly with out needing to invent it. It probably would
have taken me a lot longer to get to the point I'm at had I reinvented
Forth (if I could have done such a thing). I'm not to familar with ANS
Forth to know whether my type of thinking would produce it, however I do
like colorForth a great deal.
 
> > To facilate the collaberative process, a memory alocator might be
> > needed, so you don't step on someone else's memory.
> 
> Memory allocator? You have a problem with Number_of_bytes ALLOT?
> 

colorForth has no method of assigning memory. One person could
conceivably map all the memory, however it is likely two or more people
would have differing overlaping memory assignments.

Mark

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