[ColorForth] colorForth ~popularity

[Tin Bee <tin_bee@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi Terry:

you and i corosponded a little about a year of two
ago, I just posted somthing along those lines, I
pointed him in the direction of xanadu.

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

-scott-

--- 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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