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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps?
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 12:25:08 +1000
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On 4/07/2025 8:01 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> In article <300ba9a1581bea9a01ab85d5d361e6eaeedbf23a@i2pn2.org>,
> dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/07/2025 10:51 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I like to remind of the youtube FORTH2020 of Wagner. This concerns
>>> motions of aircraft, position speed, pitch roll and yaw etc.
>>> Terribly complicated, no LOCAL's. There was a question whether LOCAL's
>>> could have made Wagners code easier.
>>> He stated the ideal (paraphrased by me) that "code is its own comment"
>>
>> That was an interesting video even if more a rundown of his (long) history
>> as a professional forth programmer.  Here's the link for anyone curious:
>>
>> https://youtu.be/V9ES9UZHaag
>>
>> He said he uses the hardware fp stack for speed.  Is he really only
>> using 8 levels of stack?
> 
> 8 level is plenty as long as you refrain from recursion that in
> Wagners context would be not even remotely useful.

Puzzling because of a thread here not long ago in which scientific users
appear to suggest the opposite.  Such concerns have apparently been around
a long time:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/CApt6AiFkxo/m/wwZmc_Tr1PcJ