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

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

On Monday, June 28, 2004 at 9:55:09 PM, 
    Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:

>   At one end of a spectrum, it would be easy to write primitive furth
>   commands to read one line of input, create a string value from that,
>   and push it on the tuple stack.   It would be easy to add commands
>   to compare that string to a regular expression, perhaps edit it, 
>   and so forth.    Combined with very simple flow of control and a
>   use-by-convention of $env as a "hold register", Furth would become
>   a virtual machine for the programming language of "/bin/sed".

Why exactly do you consider furth more suitable for such mini languages
than the macro-system of scheme (or CL)?



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