On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Manuel Buccarello
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Greetings Owen,
well, i can't answer to the question how many regular users are here, but maybe to the reason for the developing of this language.
In the Foreword of Leo Brodie's Stating Forth, there is a quote of the inventor: "[...]
I developed Forth over the period of some years as an interface between me and the computers I programmed. The traditional languages were not providing the power, ease, or flexibility that I wanted. I disregarded much conventional wisdom in order to include exactly the capabilities needed by a productive programmer. The most important of these is the ability to add whatever capabilities later become necessary.[...]" (Source 02/25/2011: http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf0/sf0.html)
I know there are games like tetris and sokoban, but don't know where they are, hope to find that for you.
Best regards,
Manuel
2011/2/25 Owen
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Greetings, all... My name is Owen Brand and I'm a game developer for the TI-99/4a. I recently started playing with a couple dialects of Forth on the TI computer and fell in love with the syntax and speed... Especially on our memory restricted machine.
This led me on a path to learn more about Forth. I came across gforth from a couple videos on YouTube and downloaded. It's a lovely implementation and I enjoyed defining some simple words. I'm here to understand more-- what was the reason for developing this language? How many regular users are there? Are there any games in the gforth library? Development pages or forums?
Thanks in advance for any info... Forth has re-energized my programming focus and I'm looking forward to immersing myself in gforth. Thanks
Owen Brand
http://www.Opry99er.com