[OT] RedaForth

Hi,

Recently, a new open source Forth has been released the public domain. It is
been used to teach children from poor areas, the fundamentals of
programming. The system is tiny - the full distribution is a just 386kb zip
file

    http://www.geocities.com/redaforth/reda4pc.zip

I was mostly impressed by the vector graphics editor that it includes (image
attached). It is used by the kids to draw their cartoon characters, but also
to define the fonts used by the system.

Cheers,
Francisco
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No offense- I like Forth. But man, I congratulate these kids for being
able to produce something in it.  I remember trying to study Forth when I
was a 12 year old kid, I used to call up the local Twin Cities FIG
president. I'm sure I drove the poor man nuts!

Anywho... I'm sure that this is a neat language and all, but it just seems
pretty complicated.  Take this function, for example:

:resetball
   sw 2/ 10 - 4 << 'ballx ! sh 2/ 10 - 4 << 'bally !
   $ff rand $1 and 0? ( drop -1 ) * 'balldx !
   rand $3ff and $1ff - 'balldy !
   pantalla msec 'lastime !
   0 ( drop update msec lastime - 1000 >? ) drop ;

I know I could make sense of it if I thought about it some, but it looks
about as easy to read as assembler to me. :P

Anyway, thanks for the link!

Regards,
Aaron

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Francisco Garau wrote:

>
>Anywho... I'm sure that this is a neat language and all, but it
just it looks
>about as easy to read as assembler to me. :P
>
Hi Aaron,  
    as I remember, MacForth was a neet Forth implementation
    with locals and parameter for ‘words’ that make lot easiers
    to write more revealing code than what you show us.
   
    Ciao