Re: [colorforth] What's new?

[tom arnall <kloro2006@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 23 January 2009, Jason Kemp wrote:
> I haven’t touched colorForth since my last post. I’m trying to get
> to grips with forth on a Z80, which is just now becoming really
> interesting as is has taken a great deal of time to set up an
> environment, learn a dead operating system (CP/M, which is far
> simpler than MS-DOS, but, none the less, it was difficult to find
> out what I needed) and master the Z80 instruction set (well, not
> all of it). Suddenly the terms direct and indirect threading make
> sense, and the pentium doesn’t look so terrible. Also I can see why
> people design their own Forth processors. Oh and I appreciate the
> beauty of CREATE DOES> It’s amazing.
>
> In addition I have built a little robot using a PICAXE micro
> controller with my son, but this chip uses BASIC and just feels
> hideous to program—it even has GOSUBs and forces a way of thinking
> that to me now seems unnatural. This is a perfect application for
> Forth and I am certain that Forth (ideally colorForth) would be a
> far better choice of a first programming language for children.

far better, if only for the fact that once you u'stand forth, you 
u'stand the basics of e'thing else.


>
> I am looking forward to getting back with colorForth, and I hope
> that Nick has cracked the USB thing.
>
> Jason
>
> vaded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said the following on 22/01/2009 20:23:
> > I have not seen any posts on this list for a while.  What has
> > everyone been up to?  Any interesting new colorForth
> > developments?
> >
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