2025-07-23 05:18:12 <NetNoodler  > I think I have reached the point in writing my PDP-8 Forth that is easier to add new words by hand-compiling Forth pseudocode than writing in machine language.  I *think* this uses less memory, which is always a concern on PDP-8s.
2025-07-23 17:38:45 <NetNoodler  > Snag: the convention for storing names on the PDP-8 is in SIXBIT, two characters per word, with a zero byte at the end.  Unfortunately, the sixbit coding for "@" is ALSO zero.
2025-07-23 17:40:47 <NetNoodler  > Forth must be the only language in which "@" is significant...
2025-07-23 17:43:31 <identity    > it really is not
2025-07-23 17:44:18 <NetNoodler  > The assembler pseudo-op "TEXT" generates sixbit coding, but insists on putting that zero at the end.
2025-07-23 21:11:57 <xentrac     > NetNoodler: maybe Objective-C?  I forget
2025-07-23 21:12:02 <xentrac     > you'd think @ would be used more often
2025-07-23 21:12:25 <xentrac     > oh, Macintosh Pascal used @ to mean "address of", so you could get pointers to local or global variables