Invitation to irc.freenode.net #forthcafe

[Julian Fondren]

This channel is intended as a replacement for #forth, both
for those presently habiting that channel and for anyone
newly interested in an IRC community for Forth. #forth has
a few dozen people in it today, but has long suffered from
idiosyncratic management (people hanging on to +o all day,
generally unseen in Freenode) and from bad management
(people mistaking the channel name of #forth for
#<theirname>).

Here's a recent example of bad management: [edited for
usenet readability]

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<ayrnieu> : pause rp@ fp@ lp@ sp@ save-task ! next-task @
up! save-task @ sp! lp! fp! rp! ;

the great thing about this word is that the task changes at
UP!

to highlight that, : stop rp@ fp@ lp@ sp@ save-task !
next-task @ up! save-task @ sp! lp! fp! rp! prev-task @
sleep ;

: pause save-stacks (pause) load-stacks ; : stop save-stacks
(pause) load-stacks prev-task @ sleep ;

so it isn't even that the newly active task finishes up its
own pause -- it starts at the exact place that the previous
task was at, only exiting to a different environment. so a
task can enter PAUSE and exit from STOP

<ASau> ayrnieu: what's so wonderful? Have you discovered
Forth multitasking?

<slava> you guys suck

*** slava KICK ayrnieu #forth slava
*** slava KICK ASau #forth slava

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There's no justifying backstory, here. Some implementor of
a non-forth language removed two people from a channel about
Forth for breaking the silence to talk about it.

#forth is broken. You are all invited to #forthcafe

Julian.