Jack Woehr (jax@Cygnus.COM) wrote:
: Interesting in this regard is to compare Forth to Postcript,
: the latter being more oriented towards symbolic computing, yet
: differing from Forth in essentially only three respects:
: 1) Addition of the /symbol data type.
: 2) Metachar parsing forcing forth "+", for example, to be renamed
: Postscript "plus".
: 3) Temporary heap objects and garbage collection added to PS.
: =jax=
i am still climbing that steep curve to forthdom, but i did a bit of
postscript before. i was wondering how the operator "bind" appears in
forth, i guess its one of those words i have yet to learn about.
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