Re: Forth, TCL, Telescript

doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)

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Subject: Re: Forth, TCL, Telescript
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Malcom Strandberg 289 (davox!malcom@uunet.uu.net) wrote:
: I was surprised too, that no scripting tool was provided in the 4mb of
: rom tools! But why forth?

Forth came to mind because of recollections, back in the days when I did
a bit with it, of a small white computer (the Jupiter Ace ?) that was
basically a Timex Sinclair 1000 with forth instead of basic.

Anyway, Zoomer seems ideal (at least in some respects) for implementing
something similar - I don't expect to see Visual Basic for Zoomers running
any time soon, after all...

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