Re: Structured Programming using Forth

On Mar 30, 5:19 pm, Duke Normandin <merr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks to everyone who responded with their advise. They were all
interesting and informative. Having designed and developed several large
and comprehensive Intranets for several companies, which included
extensive database "backends", I'm somewhat familiar with dealing with
large projects. That is not to say that the way I've dealt with these
projects in the past, was the most efficient way of doing things. It was
however very effective. I was trying to determine if I should continue to
do what I've been doing, when I eventually use Forth for similar projects.

If what you've been doing worked very well, then look at whether
there's anything about Forth that would keep them from working. And if
your Forth is missing tools you need, look at what it would take to
build simple versions of those tools. (Or find a Forth that already
supplies them.)

If you decide there's some fundamental limitation in Forth that keeps
your current methods from working, I'd like to hear about it.

So then if you can do what you're used to, you get to see whether
Forth makes it easier to modify it in ways that your previous
languages found awkward. Other people can give you hints for what's
worked for them, but it's easiest to incorporate changes into your own
style when you see for yourself how they're improvements in specific
cases. Then you'll probably try them in other specific cases until you
find specific cases where they don't work well.

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