Being unsupported by Microsoft is not the same as running out of air, but 20 years of orphaned corporate abandonment ... things are getting a little stifled and close. And lonely.
I have to stop waving my QuickBasic card around at the Portals to the 21st Century. It's just not opening doors for me anymore.
While researching several possible candidates for Bob's New Modern Lingo, I found this.
Charles (Chuck) Moore cooked up Forth as his own personal and portable programming language and development environment. Later, the (U.S.) National Radio Astronomy Observatory hired Elizabeth Rather to do part-time software maintenance. She was horrified to find Moore's one-of-a-kind eccentric environment aiming and scheduling all the radiotelescopes. Forth was like nothing she'd ever seen inside computers before.
But she quickly noticed that she could get twice the work done in half the time in Moore's goofy Forth. (It uses Reverse Polish Notation and the Operating Stack.) She and Moore partnered to develop Forth and push it into the market, where it's had less of an explosive success -- more like a rabid Cult Following that refuses to die.
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A: Who was the third Forth programmer?
B: Elizabeth Rather.
A: No, Elizabeth Rather was the second.
B: Do you think God implemented the whole world in 6 days in C?
2 comments:
As one who actually wrote a forth interpreter in 1980 or so, I say unto you Python! Really nice language, easy to learn, very powerful, free...
hey martin, chill out, you're parking your belief and spiritual system in the humorless and angry end of the spiritual belief/non-belief spectrum.
Jesus is many things, but surely not a Reason to get into a barfight.
The Bunny, of course, lingers and hitchikes along with Easter from its pre-Christian/Pagan roots as the symbol of Spring's new life and rebirth from Winter's seeming cold, dark death of all life. It's sorta sweet to see the old Pagan Bunny still hoppin down the Bunny Trail while Gene Autry sings about him.
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