[REBOL] Re: What language am I looking for?
From: kenneth:nwinet at: 17-May-2001 19:38
Hey all,
Joel Neely wrote:
> I'm probably overly sensitive on this point, but some of my
> attempts at discussing REBOL features, performance, and
> trade-offs several months back seemed to provoke some
> "REBOL, love it or leave it!" responses. Therefore, I try
> hard to make clear that my comments and questions are offered
> in the spirit of trying to understand and (occasionally)
> suggest improvements, not in a spirit of negativity.
Not to worry. The general population often confuse analytic skills with
negativity. Contemporaneous (is that a word or did I just make a Bushism?)
writing often means leaving large wholes (<= is that Freudian or what?) in
the thoughts expressed that others like to drive trucks through. I could
show you the tread marks ;-)
When a language becomes a religion I think there's a problem. When people
feel they are personally being critisized they need to consider first that
they opened the door before they start shooting arrows back. (I personally
like listening to a good flame war, but I'm demented!)
> You might be amused to know that early implementations of
> FORTH had a related technique which often tripped up newbie
> FORTH programmers. (Remember that FORTH was a truly tiny
> language, capable of being implemented in a 4k-8k footprint
> on most microprocessors. Saving memory space was even more
> of an issue than speeding word lookup.) A common technique
> for storing word names in a dictionary was to use the first
> three characters of the word and a one-byte length. This
> meant that it was all to easy to accidentally create name
> collisions, such as
>
> first -> "fir" 3
> firms -> "fir" 3
>
> You can image the possibilities for bug-breeding!
Your just trolling for the Forth guys, aren't ya? You know it's
first -> "fir" 5
firms -> "fir" 5
Not to be confused with...
firetrucks -> "fir" 10
But Seriously Joel, tell the love it or leave it crowd to get a life (but
not so they can hear it, it just encourages them.)
Ken.
