Re: SWOOP vs. SwiftX

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Elizabeth D Rather wrote:

> SwiftX employs a sort of meta-vocabulary called "scope" that specifies a
> search order and various other things. SwiftX scopes are described in the
> SwiftX Reference Manual (another pdf). This is an important concept to
> master if you're working with SwiftX.

Howard (or any SwiftX user, for that matter,) you should read the
SwiftX Reference Manual cover to cover. Resist the urge to skim
it. You'll know a lot of it already, but you won't know it all, and
it really is an excellent reference manual. If you don't *really*
understand this stuff, you won't get the most out of SwiftX; you'll
end up doing things the hard way because you don't understand the easy
way. It's well worth the investment of time for both you and your
employer.

SwiftX provides a solid Forth cross-development environment. Your
time will be better spent understanding the framework (via the
SwiftX manual) than slogging through the cross-compiler source. If
you first understand the framework from the manual, then the
implementation details in the source will make much more sense.

-- 
Ron Oliver <roliver_at_openesque.com>
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