Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Charles Duffy]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 21:07, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
>   Oh, and something that uses RPN is an example of a "good" language?

If you're getting your Furth generated by Pika, and Pika is (for
instance) R5RS-compliant, then yes, there's plenty of 3rd-party
documentation and people who know it already. Further, Scheme is
absolutely an example of a "good" language.

People don't critisize the usability of Java by describing how hard the
bytecode is to type out with a hex editor, do they? Tom, as you may
recall, has mentioned that he's going to have a subset of Pika
backending into Furth -- that's not to say people are going to be
writing their tagging-method files in Furth syntax.


Remember: It's scheme (unless you choose to bypass that and write Furth
code directly). There are tons of syntax-aware editors and 3rd-party
implementations and so forth. And textbooks. And so forth. Do you care
if there's an O'Reilly book for the bytecode that your language backends
into?