[ColorForth] colorForth ~popularity

["t" <loveall@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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