Re: [colorforth] What's new?

[Jason Kemp <jason.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven’t touched colorForth since my last post. I’m trying to get to 
grips with forth on a Z80, which is just now becoming really interesting 
as is has taken a great deal of time to set up an environment, learn a 
dead operating system (CP/M, which is far simpler than MS-DOS, but, none 
the less, it was difficult to find out what I needed) and master the Z80 
instruction set (well, not all of it). Suddenly the terms direct and 
indirect threading make sense, and the pentium doesn’t look so terrible. 
Also I can see why people design their own Forth processors. Oh and I 
appreciate the beauty of CREATE DOES> It’s amazing.

In addition I have built a little robot using a PICAXE micro controller 
with my son, but this chip uses BASIC and just feels hideous to 
program—it even has GOSUBs and forces a way of thinking that to me now 
seems unnatural. This is a perfect application for Forth and I am 
certain that Forth (ideally colorForth) would be a far better choice of 
a first programming language for children.

I am looking forward to getting back with colorForth, and I hope that 
Nick has cracked the USB thing.

Jason

vaded@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx said the following on 22/01/2009 20:23:
> I have not seen any posts on this list for a while.  What has everyone
> been up to?  Any interesting new colorForth developments?
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