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Subject: Re: Stack vs stackless operation
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:25:00 +0000
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:40:46 +0000, LIT wrote:

> I agree with you - still it does take decent Forth programmer.
> Recall the ones described by Jeff Fox? These Forth programmers,
> that refused to use Machine Forth just because "they were hired
> to program in ANS Forth"?
> I don't believe they were be able to recode anything in
> assembler - and note, it was about 30 years ago. Since that
> time assembler programming became even less popular.

A bit off-topic: I have been in a similar situation when some of
our service engineers were very reluctant to modify inner
software parts of controllers. The guys were not dumb, but with
such modifications comes responsibility when s.th. unexpected
happens like a system crash. So it was more of a legal than a
technical issue.