From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 886 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2024 21:18:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Jan 2024 21:18:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D02A43EDA; Wed, 3 Jan 2024 07:18:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-vs1-xe34.google.com (mail-vs1-xe34.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::e34]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 263BC43ED9 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2024 07:18:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-vs1-xe34.google.com with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-466ec3e942bso836206137.1 for ; Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:18:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ccil.org; s=google; t=1704230286; x=1704835086; darn=tuhs.org; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=OUusFBo3H/+bq8QSeydJbc8gDxRP/nDxXM2YifUVbTY=; b=N7oiVIlL1XufqaLJcnV7JjGdSMnSpYZNiSKjsT1uF2+j3p388L1QGUBJAOf2qW7W55 agBMokTjCtSHVviJP1bZbvskQJuto87g9Shzi5K0YwOPVwKfTWo23Eo5eq+Oa+Bp0Hjr k9X5Kx74Lux/9rSGSXd1dGn+XyjtVAJe0at/o/WdmEMkEer0WoKHJjMt01an+e5hxm7x ipaSqtnr156YrbPC3c9RpyOhLeqWe0nqH4tBaHDDVj+0486r8ar/PQ/i97te8K0Trv/7 uDlRCb7UN3efjWdrUc1DdLUofjr/YoOJMOHrwC6vOCS6GAy0SVx9jukc6j3j9mhZEF0B OZSA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1704230286; x=1704835086; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=OUusFBo3H/+bq8QSeydJbc8gDxRP/nDxXM2YifUVbTY=; b=gUX0HHwNmc33nM00FOBRNFxnJupIMe5sB0LAfm+BtWFAP/xLgICp3Ry7N4oQyzNI8d Ova59eVhHXLhJyoVW/xFDGxyAsf3iOTvtEuxxyfY0boRRvvfC9LeBdkgnPQZsZK5Wb/p CDnnkMw8MlLJRvQziWATUcv1pcunDNfJabGUelHtkTPt0NHe5hkfcalh0nmhrnuTGT5+ ddKHoaJWFYgemS/LHOPyVcWvk6B9Nep35VvE4O5tdDKUVhYf5SdvNxZ2Wbg7DLkI6tcH F2PPDmPJ9L/ViDnCgRv7mXCYprfwrIrBZS2YPnMvtEjAdV4h25c3qL8qTvkEG7WqezAK Lw8Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YxisiYVmbHZS+W228BJsDz6HB0uvmLypi8gVLEXAHot1dlZiCfh rXxvImksxyDA8Z1RfFDxDaciEtXDzBWvvmo5T0cP5CkD3WkbC/je4p3mBBbnUos= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGlcfgX5WP7cKoa+yeOmdnval0FULH+ApD4xj6owjqxLOzbW574qApUEXLTkRs5z4F9mx8wF1UC+m6JYp6/94E= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:1520:b0:467:730:f4c7 with SMTP id f32-20020a056102152000b004670730f4c7mr3983361vsv.14.1704230285872; Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:18:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6470c59f-a1e5-418f-803d-76bcd761f530@tnetconsulting.net> <20231231224649.h45pogxycgkgs673@illithid> <20231231230615.GE19322@mcvoy.com> In-Reply-To: From: John Cowan Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2024 16:17:54 -0500 Message-ID: To: Dan Cross Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000ce31f5060dfd088d" Message-ID-Hash: K6HCFTFEE5ULYF5WRJOFTQEIXGMUTBXU X-Message-ID-Hash: K6HCFTFEE5ULYF5WRJOFTQEIXGMUTBXU X-MailFrom: cowan@ccil.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Unix Heritage Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Question about BSD disklabel history List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --000000000000ce31f5060dfd088d Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 3:49=E2=80=AFPM Dan Cross wrote: Perhaps the feeling is that that is what FORTH was; for that I > guess I don't see any reason one couldn't transpile to FORTH from some > other language. Henry Baker wrote a beautiful little paper (see https://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/ForthStack.html>) showing the mapping between Linear Lisp (a Lisp in which all variables are referenced once and only once) and a Forth-style "frameless stack". There is also a discussion of Forth as a set of linear combinators: Manfred von Thun's Joy is a Forth-like using nested lists in which the stack is the top-level list. > > --000000000000ce31f5060dfd088d Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Tu= e, Jan 2, 2024 at 3:49=E2=80=AFPM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps the feeling is that that is what FO= RTH was; for that I
guess I don't see any reason one couldn't transpile to FORTH from s= ome
other language.

Henry = Baker wrote a beautiful little paper (see https://www.plover.com/~mjd/misc= /hbaker-archive/ForthStack.html>) showing the mapping between Linear= Lisp (a Lisp in which all variables are referenced once and only once) and= a Forth-style=C2=A0"frameless stack".=C2=A0 There is also a disc= ussion of Forth as a set of linear combinators: Manfred von Thun's Joy = <ht= tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)> is a Forth-l= ike using nested lists in which the stack is the top-level list.
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