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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")
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Tobias C. Rittweiler |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:43:01 +0200 |
On Monday, June 28, 2004 at 9:55:09 PM,
Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> At one end of a spectrum, it would be easy to write primitive furth
> commands to read one line of input, create a string value from that,
> and push it on the tuple stack. It would be easy to add commands
> to compare that string to a regular expression, perhaps edit it,
> and so forth. Combined with very simple flow of control and a
> use-by-convention of $env as a "hold register", Furth would become
> a virtual machine for the programming language of "/bin/sed".
Why exactly do you consider furth more suitable for such mini languages
than the macro-system of scheme (or CL)?
-- tcr (address@hidden) ``Ho chresim'eidos uch ho poll'eidos sophos''
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Matthew Dempsky, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), tomas, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), tomas, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Jan Hudec, 2004/07/01
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"),
Tobias C. Rittweiler <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/01
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Scott Parish, 2004/07/01
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Pierce T.Wetter III, 2004/07/01