JonnyBritish Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 I thought the forthies in the group would appreciate this http://xkcd.com/645/ made me laugh anyway :-) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TI-Sissy Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I thought the forthies in the group would appreciate this http://xkcd.com/645/ made me laugh anyway :-) was this a math joke? does forth do anything? i see all kinds of braniac programming messages but never any about completed games, utilities or anything i could use. the e/a cart loads games and utilities, so does xb, what does forth do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 (edited) http://turboforth.net/about_forth.html Edited January 4, 2014 by Willsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 It sounds like a reference to reverse polish notation. Forth is unique in that it's very efficient and extremely flexible. You literally make what you need and no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightytodd Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Here's one for the Linux crowd from that same site. The first time I saw this was on a T-shirt. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Linux is bass akwards sometimes. Somehow the Linux version of some Id software was available at Electronics Boutique (Doom? Quake? I forget). Somehow the installer would tear stuff up and not install properly if you ran the script in super user mode. This is the exact opposite from Windows where a normal user account has extreme issues installing anything. UPDATE: Not saying Windows is better. Just that the cartoon reminded me of this situation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 http://turboforth.net/about_forth.html That's a nice write up Willsy. BF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Thanks! It took a while to write it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Here's one for the Linux crowd from that same site. The first time I saw this was on a T-shirt. Hmm that also works for Unix that was around long before Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 was this a math joke? does forth do anything? i see all kinds of braniac programming messages but never any about completed games, utilities or anything i could use. the e/a cart loads games and utilities, so does xb, what does forth do? You have a point TI-Sissy. Forth seems to make people kind of strange. It takes a bit of time to get your head around it and once you do, you think that it's fun to play with computer language rather than do something useful. I have noticed that tendency in myself and others. Good on you for calling it out. I will give some thought to creating something useful for the TI-99 community, but I have to confess the level of talent assembled (no pun intended) here is pretty high. As a challenge can you think of anything besides a game (not my area) that you would really want to have for your system? theBF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 was this a math joke? does forth do anything? i see all kinds of braniac programming messages but never any about completed games, utilities or anything i could use. the e/a cart loads games and utilities, so does xb, what does forth do? @Willsy wrote (ported & improved) a very nice game for TurboForth called DarkStar. Here is my fbForth 2.0 version of DarkStar. I plan to write a LOGO interpreter with fbForth 2.0 ere long. Before I do that, however, I need to work out how to handle the turtle for LOGO’s turtle graphics. But first, I must finish updating the fbForth 2.0 Manual. ...lee 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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