RPL for the 6502 circa 1981

[Garth Wilson]

Quote:For those who are interested, a discussion of the main differences between RPL and Forth is given in Appendix A.

I'm not familiar with RPL, but I can say that many of criticisms of Forth in the appendix are either invalid or outdated. For example, I never use a screen editor in Forth, but a full-featured programmer's text editor, and the turn-around time from writing a little piece of code to watching it work is instant; and my Forth assembler does not use "a bizarre, Reverse-Polish syntax for the actual assembly instructions" as the appendix says (nor does it have to do any parsing to do the regular order of mnemonic-operand. Its turnaround time to see something work is instant too).