Timeline for Did Forth's inventor Charles Moore really write a CAD program in only 5 lines of code?
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| Oct 31, 2022 at 6:17 | vote | accept | aybe | ||
| Oct 30, 2022 at 3:22 | comment | added | Acccumulation | with open instructions.txt as f: eval(f.read()) | |
| S Oct 28, 2022 at 23:18 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited. There isn't any need to declare a question.
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| Oct 28, 2022 at 21:37 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | His old blog at colorforth.com is archived (or only a very small subset of it) at colorforth.github.io (the domain expired). Some OKAD information. Some of the annual "Fireside chats" contain detailed information about the design considerations for the VLSI tool (early 2010s?) . | |
| Oct 28, 2022 at 21:34 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 20:02 | comment | added | davidbak | Writing 5 lines of code: 10 minutes. Knowing which 5 lines of code to write: A lifetime of innovation. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 19:28 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 27, 2022 at 15:52 | answer | added | Jörg W Mittag | timeline score: 81 | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 13:57 | comment | added | Brian H | Then every BASIC program requires just 3 characters- "RUN". | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 13:12 | comment | added | piiperi Reinstate Monica | A game engine could be said to be structured around something like "while(running) { handle_input(); draw_frame(); }" and starting from scratch and not knowing anything about the subject, it might take 2 years to come up with those lines. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 12:21 | comment | added | Steve | I suspect what is meant by "CAD" isn't how we know such applications today, but as something that generated the raw data for a CNC machine. And I suspect the "5 lines" were the core of a high-level, domain-specific language. I can believe that a 5-line algorithm involved 2 years of work. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 12:17 | answer | added | dirkt | timeline score: 32 | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 12:10 | comment | added | the busybee | Since Forth most of the time organizes its source on 64x16 screens, 5 lines might have at most 320 characters. However, these lines might only be the main word ("word" is the technical term for something known as function or method in other programming languages) of the program. | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 11:58 | history | edited | TonyM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Spelling and grammar.
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 11:50 | comment | added | mannaggia | Syntax error, line 2 character 28,143 | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 11:47 | comment | added | Tommylee2k | many programming languages allow as many commands on a single line as desired. "in just 5 lines" doesn't mean anything, except that this guy obviously didn't like proper code formatting | |
| Oct 27, 2022 at 11:25 | history | asked | aybe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |