In article <87h6041iue.fsf@nightsong.com>,   
   Paul Rubin   wrote:   
   >dxf  writes:   
   >> Forth forces an average programmer to adopt a level of organisation   
   >> sooner than a locals- based language.  I suspect forthers that promote   
   >> locals are well aware forth is readable and maintainable but are   
   >> pursuing personal agendas of style which requires implying the   
   >> opposite.   
   >   
   >IDK, I've seen some unreadable Forth code that was written by experts.   
   >Whether locals could have helped, I don't know.   
      
   Maybe you are mistaken. I have seen unmaintainable code written by   
   some self-proclaimed experts.   
   I have not seen unmaintainable code written by real experts.   
   I have seen a lot of code. 70% of my 40+ years was spent on removing   
   defects or enhancing existing code.   
      
   There is a problem with the word unreadable. The 800 page proof   
   of the Fermat theorem is unreadable. At first sight my manx code   
   is unreadable. I read children stories in Chinese, to most Westerners   
   they are unreadable.   
      
   The story goes that a Boeing doesn't fly until the documentation weight   
   rivals that of the airplane. I was in the middle of such a process in   
   Dutch railway design where safety matters.   
   Pick a document of this gigantic pile and you can't make heads or tails   
   of it.   
   Or get the deepseek seminal publication. The only thing that most people   
   understand is the "11 million dollars" some how spent.   
      
   Groetjes Albert   
   --   
   The Chinese government is satisfied with its military superiority over USA.   
   The next 5 year plan has as primary goal to advance life expectancy   
   over 80 years, like Western Europe.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)