cctalk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

[woodelf]

Mark Tapley wrote:

> 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.

Are we tallking real gates as in TTL,  or FPGA style design? Forth does 
have several advantages
over say fortran since they removed the Sense Switch requirment of 
fortran.My worry is that you
may not be able to high-level threshold logic and memory anymore for 
industral problems.