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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl to dxforth@gmail.com   
   Re: Parsing timestamps?   
   04 Jul 25 12:01:51   
   
   In article <300ba9a1581bea9a01ab85d5d361e6eaeedbf23a@i2pn2.org>,   
   dxf   wrote:   
   >On 3/07/2025 10:51 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   >> ...   
   >> I like to remind of the youtube FORTH2020 of Wagner. This concerns   
   >> motions of aircraft, position speed, pitch roll and yaw etc.   
   >> Terribly complicated, no LOCAL's. There was a question whether LOCAL's   
   >> could have made Wagners code easier.   
   >> He stated the ideal (paraphrased by me) that "code is its own comment"   
   >   
   >That was an interesting video even if more a rundown of his (long) history   
   >as a professional forth programmer.  Here's the link for anyone curious:   
   >   
   >https://youtu.be/V9ES9UZHaag   
   >   
   >He said he uses the hardware fp stack for speed.  Is he really only   
   >using 8 levels of stack?   
      
   8 level is plenty as long as you refrain from recursion that in   
   Wagners context would be not even remotely useful.   
      
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