Okay, challenge on... Try any one of these in Forth:

http://weitz.de/eclm2009/
http://weitz.de/eclm2009/Hamburg%20Intro.pdf
http://weitz.de/eclm2009/GigaDSP%20presentation.pdf
http://weitz.de/eclm2009/Butterfly%20Presentation.pdf
http://weitz.de/eclm2009/Okeanos.pdf

On Jan 31, 2010, at 01:26 AM, Elizabeth D Rather wrote:

> David McClain wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> But there are certain problem domains where Forth is most applicable, =
>> and others where it is not. The height of compiler technology has been =
>> achieved in languages like OCaml and Haskell. For moderately complex =
>> languages you could certainly slog your way through and come up with a =
>> passable system all written in Forth, but the time it would take would =
>> be orders of magnitude longer, except in very narrow niches -- such as =
>> when writing an Assembler for a foreign machine where you want to =
>> Meta-Compile Forth for it. I have never seen shorter Assemblers than =
>> those developed in Forth.
>>
> I would love an opportunity to test that assertion on a challenge rather
> more complex than a "mere assembler".
>
> Cheers,
> Elizabeth
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