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06:10:59 * crc is getting ready for another long day at work :(
06:56:05 <docl> have a good day, or at least as good as possible
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15:06:20 <erider> hello guys 
15:09:01 <erider> crc: hey are you going to add backspace to chrome's retro plugin?  
15:22:43 <erider> anyone here?
18:02:02 <erider> hello 
18:39:08 <docl> hi erider 
18:39:14 * docl just got back from work
18:40:36 <erider> hi 
19:30:27 <crc> hi erider, docl 
19:30:42 <erider> hi 
19:33:38 <erider> crc: you guys be around tomorrow 
19:34:25 <crc> yes, in the evening
19:35:14 <erider> crc: have you played with freeforth at all? 
19:35:50 <crc> yes, a couple years ago
19:37:21 <erider> crc: did you like the functionality 
19:38:44 <crc> I dislike the compile-only nature
19:40:46 <erider> crc that is not a bad thing? 
19:40:49 <erider> is it? 
19:51:49 <crc> it just shifts complexity around
19:54:15 <erider> crc: how so 
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19:55:18 <crc> freeforth has to track and free memory from the compiled code to simulate interpretation
20:16:33 <crc> inventory is dragging on at work. tomorrow should be a shorter day (9-10 hours, instead of 12-15); hopefully we'll have most of it wrapped up then
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20:42:28 <docl> hard to imagine a forth without an interpreter
20:43:31 <crc> it's messy
20:44:01 <crc> see http://christophe.lavarenne.free.fr/ff/bed.ff for an example of a port of the retro block editor
20:46:02 <docl> the backtick character is heavily used, I see
20:46:10 <crc> yes
20:46:50 <docl> hmm. might seem less complicated once you are used to it
20:46:59 <crc> still messy to read though
20:47:22 <docl> what do the backticks do?
20:47:37 <crc> mark a word as a macro
20:47:40 <docl> ahh
20:49:23 <crc> the parser relies a lot on suffixes and prefixes to determine behavior. it's a lot like a single-color varient of colorforth :)
20:51:07 <docl> oooh :)
20:53:04 <docl> sounds like something I'd try
20:54:47 <crc> it's a lot like colorforth: built as a base for making cross-compilers
20:56:09 <crc> 512k for code + data, 256k for input buffers
20:56:19 <crc> really interesting register usage
21:39:49 <retro-commit> [crcx/wheke] 0acdc3: warning about # of items fixed (> 10, not >= 10)
21:49:47 <retro-commit> [crcx/wheke] 349f5c: fix [IF]/[THEN]
21:52:25 <crc> that's it for today. two small bugfixes.
21:55:33 <crc> at some point I may merge the various repos again
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