HP75C / FORTH / Clock?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(03-18-2017 09:57 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  

(03-18-2017 08:43 AM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  The HP75 timer is made of 5 consecutive bytes at the same physical address in the I/O space. I see no way to read it from Basic (PEEK) or Forth, only a multibyte read opcode can do it from assembly.

It should be easy to make a primitive in Forth then to do it, right? (I have a 75C that someone gave me, pretty beat up and lacking the battery pack and manuals, and I never learned to use it. I did use my 71B heavily in the late 1980's, but never learned its assembly language.)

Quote:Now, Forth is definitely too cryptic and unstructured for me ...

That's the way I see C. An absolute disaster.

I don't understand either of these comments, both C and Forth provide plenty of constructs for for structured programming, however neither one of them forces you to use them.