From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 28/09/2024 12:13 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:   
   > Ruvim  writes:   
   >> Such dialects, or better said, descendants, already exist.   
   >> For example: Factor, StrongForth.   
   >>> Probably useless for embedded applications.   
   >> Agreed.   
   >   
   > Factor is sort of a Lisp dialect that is garbage collected, I think.  So   
   maybe   
   > not great for embedded.  StrongForth, I thought, was like regular Forth but   
   > with a type system.  That shouldn't be a problem unless there are other   
   > issues.  Ada is strongly typed, and C++ is sort-of-strongly typed, and both   
   > are used in embedded apps all the time.   
      
   Is it not the endless comparison between forth and other languages   
   that invites all these 'innovations'?  If there were no comparison,   
   there'd be no standards, no conformity, nor those things that make   
   one language and their programmers indistinguishable from another.   
   There might be creativity instead of imitation.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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