[REBOL] Re: What language am I looking for?
From: gjones05:mail:orion at: 17-May-2001 8:41
Thanks, Joel, for the additional explanation about implementation
strategies for flexible, expressive languages. Also, regarding ...
> 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!
Wow. Almost as effective at breeding bugs as leaving food on a kitchen
counter in the US Gulf Coast areas!
--Scott Jones
