Why, in my day we had to write servers in FORTH

[david nicol]

If you can write in it, FORTH gives you tighter code than
even C.  (FWIW, I believe postscript is a FORTH language.)

Googling for "forth for linux" gives one a link to
http://www.lxhp.in-berlin.de/index-lx.shtml
which has a healthy-lookin' forth links list on it.

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:16, DCT Jared wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 07:10:22 -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> >
> >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.
> 
> Why Forth? Does FORTH produce tighter executables?
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> -Jared
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david nicol
	                                Where the hell did I put my coffee?