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   Paul Rubin to dxf   
   Re: Parsing timestamps?   
   26 Jun 25 21:03:46   
   
   From: no.email@nospam.invalid   
      
   dxf  writes:   
   > Yet forthers have no problem with this.  Take the SwiftForth source code.   
   > At best you'll get a general comment as to what a function does.  How do   
   > they maintain it - the same way anyone proficient in C maintains C code.   
      
   Certainly it was a Forther who found cmForth needed that extra   
   documentation, and took the trouble to write it.  C code as I mentioned   
   partially self-documents because it uses named variables in places where   
   Forth would have the value in an anonymous stack slot.   
      
   I looked at some of the SwiftForth library code (the stuff on their web   
   site) and I did find that pretty readable.   
      
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