Why, in my day we had to go uphill both ways in the snow to school.

[Charles Steinkuehler]

Leo J Mauler wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:01:40 -0600 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
> writes:

>> We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.
> 
> Ahhh, Fortran.  Much more "fun" than BASIC.
> 
> Anyone else try to write programs in FORTH?

I *LOVE* FORTH.  I just finished an embedded application written in 
FORTH (a small temperature/humidity alarm/data-logger...cooperative 
real-time multitasking running in 8 KBytes of flash and 1K RAM).

I really want to build a tiny (probably about 10k) FORTH system for 
linux that has no reliance on libc (making kernel calls directly, 
instead) and use it to replace a lot of the shell-scripting and busybox 
tools typically used in small linux systems (like the LEAF firewalls I 
play with).  Should be a lot of fun.

-- 
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net