cctalk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 42

[Jules Richardson]

Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, 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.
>> -- 
>>                     - Mark
>>             210-522-6025, temporary cell 240-375-2995
>>
>>
> 
> Hi
>  Forth is also one of the few languages that can readily be created from 
> scratch on most computer platforms. Most other languages, you are tied 
> to some vendor to supply a compiler for you.

True, assuming you can't write a compiler (or find one from somewhere) - 
or do you mean that the language spec isn't available for most languages 
without at least shelling out $$$ (I'd be surprised if that were the 
case, but stranger things have happened)