Re: FYI: Re: MuP21 Programming Manual (fwd)
- To: MISC
- Subject: Re: FYI: Re: MuP21 Programming Manual (fwd)
- From: znmeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961010170546.12566C-100000@sun2> from "Eugene Leitl" at Oct 10, 96 05:15:02 pm
->>On page 104, he says, "In fact, I'm designing my own language today."
->>He says Forth programmers would hate it. Has he said anything more
->>about
->>it? Is OK what he was talking about? If it's OK, _I'm_ not hostile to
->>it, and I can program in Forth.
->>
->>If anybody can help answer the above, I'd really appreciate it.
->>
->>--Andrew Sieber
->>kd4jtv@bbs.wa4yse.ampr.org
->
->No he is not talking about OK. Although OK explored some of his
->ideas about this.
->
->He often talks about a stripped down Forth. Chuck thinks that ANS
->Forth resulted in a very confusing thing. Chuck likes simplicity.
->In my opinion the closest thing that he has published to his
->latest ideas about his current language is the F21 instruction set,
->or his assembler for MuP21.
->
->He likes -IF and -UNTIL which use carry instead of 0. And IF and
->UNTIL don't remove arguments like normal Forth. He doesn't need
->a lot of stack space or most of the stuff added to Forth over
->the last twenty years.
->
->As he once said, "What you take away is more important than what
->you add."
->
->Jeff Fox
I've seen cmForth on the web somewhere; is this what you're referring
to?? Also, Pygmy is descended from cmForth.