Re: Recommended book for PHP?

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:15:58 -1000
To:	Brian V Bonini <b-bonini(at)cox.net>
Cc:	HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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On 17 Dec 2002, at 16:12, Brian V Bonini wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 15:36, David Jones wrote:
> > I'm new to PHP. My "programming" background 
> > contains smatterings of FORTH, BASIC, and Java.
> 
> Just curious, what's "FORTH"? I never heard of that....
> You didn't mean Fortran did you?

Nope, not Fortran. FORTH is from "fourth generation." 
It's a threaded interpreter language known for compact 
code, speed, portability, and being hard to read. ;-)

http://www.forth.org/

I used to use it on my old Commodore 64 computer. 
The complete language - including compiler, 
assembler, debugger, and virtual memory management 
(on a computer with no hardware support for virtual 
memory at all!) - occupied 8KB. It ran fast enough to 
change the color of individual lines on the video display 
as they were being drawn (kind of a neat trick to get 
around computer hardware that could only display 16 
colors at a time).

I understand it is used today to control astronomical 
telescopes.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

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