cctalk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

[Mark Tapley]

At 18:08 -0500 10/14/05, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>  >Suppose you wanted to write an application for a manufacturing process that
>  >will, in all probability, run for the next 30 years....

Also depends on how inviolate the code must be, and how verifiable 
the system. If you need to re-create the system, FORTH can be 
implemented with a lot fewer gates of hardware and a lot fewer lines 
of code than JAVA - and would therefore be a lot easier to verify, if 
you need to design/build new hardware to run your legacy code on in 
25 years.
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