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If ever there was an application "made for Forth", surely it would be astroimaging
- Chuck Moore invented Forth at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
- FORTH Inc, and Leon Wagner are actively controlling radio dishes with Forth
- There is a fertile professional-amateur collaboration in algorithms and techniques - very Forth!
- Interesting technical aspects span from simple motor controllers through to sophisticated image manipulation algorithms
- Forth-quality engineering “under the hood” would be a great practical benefit
Yet the case for Forth is perhaps not compelling
- Hard to find any recent history of Forth being used in this field as a starting point
- Access to all essential libraries will have to be “plumbed in” from nothing, even SQLite
- Floating point, infix, mathematical algorithms need to be implemented “from the textbook”
What is the right approach for including Forth?
- A longer, bottom-up project to develop a stack of astronomy-related data structures and libraries?
- Development of Forth as a general inter-application “glue language”, rather like REXX or Amiga AREXX?
- Wolf Wejgaard's TclForth
- Why do you need TclForth if Tcl already does everything you need?
- A niche tool for some local, small-scale problem solving (perhaps custom user hardware)?
What do you think?
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