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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!merk!winston
- From: winston@merk.com (Winston Smith)
- Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
- Message-ID: <C05tKr.4xz@merk.com>
- Keywords: FORTH, infix, postfix, parser, PASCAL
- Organization: Technology Partners, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec30.035608.22678@mtu.edu> <31DEC199207582838@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> <sourada.725846389@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 05:22:01 GMT
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- Speaking of --POSTFIX-- versus --INFIX-- notation for the FORTH language...
- if people didn't like dealing with --POSTFIX-- notation, then surely someone
- must have written an expression parser that accepted INFIX notation? It
- would seem like a natural thing to do right from the start. I mean... I
- have seen examples written in PASCAL, and the PASCAL parser didn't really
- need any tweaking. While it is true that using an INFIX parser sort of
- defeats the purpose of FORTH, i.e. saving on speed and space by conforming
- to the machine's architecture, wouldn't it have helped FORTH gain wider
- acceptance? (Well, all right, maybe not a parser, but how about maybe
- a --POSTFIX-- to --INFIX-- "translator" A LA the BASIC "tokenizer".)
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