2025-12-17 15:28:41 <ghodawalaaman_> Hello o/
2025-12-17 15:38:01 <ghodawalaaman_> https://programming.dev/post/42507593
2025-12-17 15:38:11 <ghodawalaaman_> failed attempt to create a forth compiler in c#
2025-12-17 15:38:13 <ghodawalaaman_> :(
2025-12-17 16:01:13 <DKordic     > ghodawalaaman_: ``A failure to plan is a plan for failure.  ''
2025-12-17 16:01:32 <DKordic     > Where is your problem statement?
2025-12-17 16:02:31 <DKordic     > Not even you know what should be done.
2025-12-17 16:03:03 <ghodawalaaman_> DKordic: the problem is that I don't know how to parse it properly, I have done it so far but don't know if it's enough
2025-12-17 16:04:29 <DKordic     > Look up ""parse"" in (English) dictionary.  I guess it is not your mother's tongue.  Perhaps even better, a formalism... of a _formal langauge_!?
2025-12-17 16:05:09 <ghodawalaaman_> yeah English is not my mother tongue
2025-12-17 16:06:24 <DKordic     > 
ACTION .oO(Have anybody ever said C is a formal language?  Liek PC is a computer...  Android even less so.  Cantor's Theorem...  )

2025-12-17 16:07:23 <ghodawalaaman_> okay I will try to explain where I am stuck. I parsed(tokenized/lexical analysis) almost everything but don't know to tokenize loops
2025-12-17 16:07:41 <ghodawalaaman_> and other than that there is not syntax error checking in my code
2025-12-17 16:10:40 <DKordic     > That is why Forth is interesting.  At least IMO.  I don't give a sh.it about ""Operating System"" (UNIX), ""parsing"", ""compiler"", ""linker"", ""type""(( system )s).
2025-12-17 16:11:03 <DKordic     > It can be any programming language as lng as it's C!?
2025-12-17 16:11:32 <DKordic     > ghodawalaaman_: So, WTF is ""parsing""?
2025-12-17 16:11:42 <ghodawalaaman_> tokenizing?
2025-12-17 16:11:52 <ghodawalaaman_> lexical anlysis?
2025-12-17 16:16:32 <DKordic     > The world is not as simple as you (and your masters) can possibly decree.
2025-12-17 16:56:51 <crc         > forth parsing is mostly just separating on whitespace. (excluding things like s" or : which parse ahead in the input stream)
2025-12-17 18:21:56 <jackdaniel  > what about numbers?
2025-12-17 18:22:48 <jackdaniel  > (or strings)
2025-12-17 18:25:31 <crc         > strings are built up using words like s" which parse ahead in the input stream, numbers typically get checked if the input token isn't a word in the dictionary
2025-12-17 18:27:16 <crc         > http://lars.nocrew.org/dpans/dpans3.htm#3.4
2025-12-17 18:28:39 <crc         > things like definitions, loops, and conditionals are also implemented by words, not a predefined set of structures
2025-12-17 19:06:53 <DKordic     > AFAICU ""Form and Content in Computer Science"" (https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/TuringLecture.html) is relevant.
2025-12-17 19:13:35 <DKordic     > The essence of SyntaxError is inappropriate application of relevant Constructors.
2025-12-17 19:15:20 <DKordic     > I got SyntaxErro in both Haskell and Python for reasonable expressions.  That is why I don't care much about them.
2025-12-17 19:17:34 <DKordic     > Effort put into ""C Type System"" is like M$ Word.  A one-way street.
2025-12-17 21:01:40 <KipIngram   > This isn't Forth, but I can't resist sharing, because it's pretty much the first time I've EVER seen anyone get the material covered as RIGHT as he gets it.  So many sacred cows slain...
2025-12-17 21:01:46 <KipIngram   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcY3ZtgYis0