Re: Forth and Co - The Return of the Jedi

John Doty wrote:
Jerry Avins wrote:
John Doty wrote:

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But look at what Chuck Moore does with Forth. He not only uses his languages, he constantly reinvents them. That's what I'm talking about.

You seem to be saying, here and elsewhere, that any dialect that once was Forth but hasn't been reinvented recently enough isn't Forth any more. I think you mean that until it's made explicit.

I've asserted here that Forth is a methodology, not a language. So I cannot possibly mean what you think I mean.

I don't think that you mean that either. If an entirely different language with a novel and different syntax adopted what you call the Forth methodology, would that make it Forth? If no, then Forth is a language recognizable to those fluent in it. If yes, is there much left to discuss?

Jerry
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