Well that didn't work out very well either... try the PDF:

http://refined-audiometrics.com/downloads/SRP-6.pdf

- DM

On Jan 31, 2010, at 01:58 AM, David McClain wrote:

> 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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