New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

Rahul Siddharthan rsidd at online.fr
Mon Apr 5 13:31:53 PDT 2004


I wrote:
>>I have a theory that Forth is more readable for someone whose native
>>language has SOV (or OSV) word order.
>
>I'm not sure word order matters: lisp is often much more readable than
>C but no human language I'm familiar with has a VSO word order.

I should take that back.  English of course has that order in the
imperative mode, which is what one uses in programming: 
"add 2 to 3" is like (+ 2 3)

But I'm still not convinced this has anything to do with readability.

R





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