Forth like interpreter
Samuel A. Falvo II
kc5tja at garnet.armored.net
Mon Mar 20 08:16:49 EST 2000
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<425A5D00B0F916D1.7920112131B1A88A.D3428C8A56515B00 at lp.airnews.net>, Tres
Seaver wrote:
>Forth was the first "brain-bender" language I learned, and the one which
>caused me to learn assembler. I still credit Forth with making me Lisp-
>impaired, via a kind of hysteresis.
Odd. Forth is precisely what enabled me to learn Lisp. Forth is a reverse
Lisp of sorts:
(defun cmpint (x y)
(cond ((< x y) -1)
((= x y) 0)
(T 1)))
: cmpint ( x y -- f )
2DUP < IF
2DROP -1
ELSE
= IF
0
ELSE
1
THEN
THEN ;
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KC5TJA/6, DM13, QRP-L #1447
Samuel A. Falvo II
Oceanside, CA
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