Owen Densmore

Post #75,613 by deSitter 1/20/03 5:25:58 AM Reply	Owen Densmore Well, here's why the semantics of FORTH and Smalltalk seem similar: [link\|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmalltalkInForth\|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmalltalkInForth] Quote: Owen Densmore, refugee from Apple and then at Sun, and TomStambaugh spent an afternoon by the pool at the HyattPaloAlto in 86 or thereabouts, where we determined that a stack of dictionaries in PostScript (a print-oriented Forth extension) had the same semantics as an inheritance tree in Smalltalk. Owen was building NeWS (at that time it was called Sun Extended X), in Sun's homebrewed DisplayPostScript? and elaborated those ideas into a reasonably full-featured display server, all extensible, all object oriented, and all in PostScript/Forth. Anyone have anything to relate RE this guy Dinsmore? Given the above and given that FORTH is almost next to the hardware, a Smalltalk windowing system could be portably blindingly fast. -drl
Post #75,615 by deSitter 1/20/03 5:41:17 AM Reply	Interesting [link\|http://catalog.com/hopkins/lang/NeWS.html\|http://catalog.com/h...ns/lang/NeWS.html] Well, there goes another idea :) "X is the left brain of windowing and NeWS is the right." But should be - user interface is the cerebrum and hardware interface is the cerebellum. -drl
Post #75,918 by JimWeirich 1/21/03 1:12:19 PM Reply	FORTH != Postscript >> PostScript (a print-oriented Forth extension) Although both PostScript and FORTH use postfix notation and an explicit stack, one is not derived from the other. -- -- Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net [link\|http://w3.one.net/~jweirich\|http://w3.one.net/~jweirich] --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
Post #75,933 by deSitter 1/21/03 2:04:25 PM Reply	Re: FORTH != Postscript Uh, right. Thanks. -drl
Post #75,921 by admin 1/21/03 1:18:42 PM Reply	Art imitates life... [link\|http://web.archive.org/web/20011121101742/w3.one.net/~jweirich/oostuff/ps.html\|Or something like that...] Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

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