[OT] RedaForth

Asselin Raymond raymondasselin at sympatico.ca
Tue Nov 7 02:06:40 UTC 2006


>
>Anywho... I'm sure that this is a neat language and all, but it
just 
>seems
>pretty complicated.  Take this function, for example:
>
>:resetball
>   sw 2/ 10 - 4 << 'ballx ! sh 2/ 10 - 4 << 'bally !
>   $ff rand $1 and 0? ( drop -1 ) * 'balldx !
>   rand $3ff and $1ff - 'balldy !
>   pantalla msec 'lastime !
>   0 ( drop update msec lastime - 1000 >? ) drop ;
>
>I know I could make sense of it if I thought about it some, but
it looks
>about as easy to read as assembler to me. :P
>
Hi Aaron,  
    as I remember, MacForth was a neet Forth implementation
    with locals and parameter for ‘words’ that make lot easiers
    to write more revealing code than what you show us. 
    
    Ciao



More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list