New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

Rahul Siddharthan rsidd at online.fr
Mon Apr 5 13:27:47 PDT 2004


Chris Pressey wrote:
>>     Forth is unreadable and unmaintainable.
>
>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've seen a quote somewhere that C "combines the simplicity of
assembly language with the power of assembly language".  That seems to
be even more true of Forth.  

R





More information about the Kernel mailing list