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FORTH on the ATARI!

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Clever Monkey

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Oct 25, 2007, 12:31:04 PM10/25/07
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Discuss.
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John Passaniti

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Oct 25, 2007, 11:49:38 PM10/25/07
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Clever Monkey wrote:
> http://dharmatech.onigirihouse.com/atari-forth.jpg
>
> Discuss.

I think it's obvious.

A lone wolf programmer is crushed under a monolithic Forth, his face
distorted with the pain of still not having decent library support in
the year 3000. His futuristic helmet combined with the latest
innovation in unusual keyboards allows him write code without his hands,
which is a good thing since his hands are quite busy.

What is he coding? We don't know-- it's a mystery. But we do know that
although there is an entire planet behind him sharing code as part of a
global community, he prefers the power and control of writing the same
balanced tree routines over and over, ever-so-slightly changing them to
be ever-so-slightly optimized for the each application.

And although this kind of programming is hardly productive in the
conventional sense, a glance between his legs suggests this is, umm, an
exciting way to write code.

Meanwhile, his girlfriend is about to suffer a wardrobe malfunction to
rival Janet Jackson's.

Bill Marcum

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Oct 28, 2007, 5:34:09 PM10/28/07
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On 2007-10-25, Clever Monkey <spam...@clevermonkey.org.INVALID> wrote:
> http://dharmatech.onigirihouse.com/atari-forth.jpg
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> Discuss.

The fact that the book cover doesn't specify 8-bit or ST shows that it's
a very early book.

Jason Damisch

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Oct 29, 2007, 3:00:36 PM10/29/07
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On Oct 28, 1:34 pm, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On 2007-10-25, Clever Monkey <spamt...@clevermonkey.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
> >http://dharmatech.onigirihouse.com/atari-forth.jpg
>
> > Discuss.
>
> The fact that the book cover doesn't specify 8-bit or ST shows that it's
> a very early book.

I have this book, infact, and can tell you that it is a Forth for the
8 bit line.

The quality of the code in this book is nothing fantastic. I would
call in intro-level stuff.

On thing that I didn't know before is that on the 8 bit line, the
joystick ports are two way ports and can be used for much more than
game input.

Jason

Clever Monkey

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Oct 31, 2007, 2:58:32 PM10/31/07
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John Passaniti wrote:
> Clever Monkey wrote:
>> http://dharmatech.onigirihouse.com/atari-forth.jpg
>>
>> Discuss.
>
> I think it's obvious.
>
> A lone wolf programmer is crushed under a monolithic Forth, his face
> distorted with the pain of still not having decent library support in
> the year 3000. His futuristic helmet combined with the latest
> innovation in unusual keyboards allows him write code without his hands,
> which is a good thing since his hands are quite busy.
>
Indeed.

He does seem to be doing all the heavy lifting on his own. Either that,
or we are on a planet with extremely low gravity, and he is desperately
trying to use Forth to simply depress the "T" key. Possibly to impress
the chick with the huge thighs and tiny head.

I imagine him shouting "Khaaaaaaaaan!" as he falls to his knees.

Tester

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Oct 31, 2007, 3:57:03 PM10/31/07
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:31:04 -0400, Clever Monkey
<spam...@clevermonkey.org.INVALID> wrote:

>http://dharmatech.onigirihouse.com/atari-forth.jpg
>
>Discuss.

Do you know what a 6502 programmer has for breakfast?

A short stack.

Richard Owlett

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Oct 31, 2007, 4:54:50 PM10/31/07
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Tester wrote:

But a TMS???? programmer could have many stacks
[Sure wish TI had a better marketing department -- I could see it having
developed into processor with single instruction context switch among
2**(8**n) contexts with all registers maintained ;]

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