lisard at zetnet.co.uk wrote:
>> On 1998-03-26 philrob at ix.netcom.com said:
> :Riddle:
> :What language was FORTH written in?
>> many many, until it was stable enough to be used to write itself. see
> chuck moore's article in byte, august 1980.
>> forth is nearly unique amongst popular programming languages in that it
> was written and refined by a guy who didn't see himself as either an
> academic or a systems programmer. chuck moore wrote for for his own use,
> period. when elizabeth rather picked it up and found she was more
> productive using it than using the normal languages and environments,
> they were both somewhat amazed.
Sounds like you have a little more info than me. My post was a
reflection on one of my FORTH books which describes it as a
language for writing languages and the only one which was written
in itself. Thanks for your info. Interesting.
--
Phil Roberts, Jr.
Feelings of Worthlessness and So-Called Cognitive Science
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5476
