From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/07/2025 8:01 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Puzzling because of a thread here not long ago in which scientific users   
   appear to suggest the opposite.  Such concerns have apparently been around   
   a long time:   
      
   https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/CApt6AiFkxo/m/wwZmc_Tr1PcJ   
      
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