[ColorForth] colorForth ~popularity

["t" <loveall@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, April 16, Tin Bee wrote:

> when i was thinking about his 'edifice' I thought he
> was talking about the symbology used to represent the
> underlying functions.
>
> -scott-

I thought that was what I was expressing. 'Edifice' seemed too limiting a term.

colorForth presents the most compact symbolic expressions (functions) that I
have encountered in programming languages.

My comments were trying to express that in a somewhat technical metaphor.
Obviously, it did not communicate clearly, for which I apologize.

Regards,
Terry

>
> --- t <loveall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > colorForth doesn't appear to me as an edifice so
> > much as a surrounding
> > hyperspace. It encloses the program space in an N+3
> > (at least) manner.
> >
> > Color collapses interpreter modes along one axis.
> >
> > Forth's universal treatment of integers as either
> > numbers or address pointers
> > (read: no enforced type checking) collapses another
> > axis. See 'find' in forth
> > written in C for example.
> >
> > The stack provides temporary unnamed storage
> > removing the need for a linear
> > local name space.
> >
> > When I say "collapse" I mean that explicit becomes
> > implicit thereby forming a
> > "warp" between two disjoint points on a topological
> > surface.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Terry Loveall
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jack Johnson" <fragment@xxxxxxx>
> > To: "ColorForth List Member"
> > <ColorForth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:09 AM
> > Subject: [ColorForth] colorForth ~popularity
> >
> >
> > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Tin Bee wrote:
> > > > any body on the list read the fountainhead?
> > because my
> > > > post will be in that vein.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, I'm in the middle of both The
> > Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) and
> > > Interface Culture by Steven Johnson, so I have
> > this intersection of ideas
> > > going on revolving around how space affects the
> > actions and activities
> > > inside it, be it a physical space or an
> > information space.
> > >
> > > In terms of colorForth, you can look at this on a
> > myriad of levels (which
> > > is always fun).  If you abstract colorForth (yet
> > again, for those of you
> > > into that sort of thing) and picture it as an
> > edifice, what does it look
> > > like to you?  What role does it serve?  How does
> > it affect the
> > > interactions inside it?
> > >
> > > -J
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