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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Lispification of Forth Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 09:52:16 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2025May28.115216@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <nnd$5626862c$3b1b09a0@e3b20ce8a9e1d1e9> <d02785598e82c63663532d84d40de0f7@www.novabbs.com> <f6f37213a3429712a0ec487175a74360@www.novabbs.com> <3182ec14697011f4dda6a722e2f95020@www.novabbs.com> Injection-Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 16:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e7349cde5e9e8a1238cee8739fe8d37c"; logging-data="3462990"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vMGQQVRAoDQoMMAG/I1DT" Cancel-Lock: sha1:gFW67vlkuVoClanCRTwFSPMPXpc= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 minforth@gmx.net (minforth) writes: >IIRC in HolonForth it was also possible to access and >modify code and even sources on the fly, and were >immediately active after commitment. I don't know how >Wolf Weijgaard implementd that, "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection." <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software_engineering> That would certainly solve this particular problem. In any case, when he demonstrated it, it was very impressive. >perhaps he was once inspired by Smalltalk. That's certainly possible. Like Holon, Smalltalk is a system where you can browse and edit individual words, and edit them at run-time. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: https://forth-standard.org/ EuroForth 2023 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef23/papers/ EuroForth 2024 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef24/papers/