Surprise indeed!

Many thanks Bob and everyone for your posts and links. My idea is
to take a time warp back to the old days and control my telescope
with a CLI insead of the mouse ;-) Forth running in an interactive
CLI with the ASCOM & MaxIM objects implemented as words could be the
base, with more advanced words defined on top. I played around
with forth 20 years ago on a commodore 64 and seem to remember I
enjoyed it... :-)

Regards,

Andrew


--- In ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com, Bob Denny <rdenny@d...> wrote:
> anding_eunding:
> > Does anyone have a FORTH wrapper for the ASCOM object set?
> > Would anyone be interested in using such a thing anyway?
> > Would such a thing add any value over what can be done in VB?
>
> Surprise! FORTH has been implemented (in a very basic form) by
Mark Hammond
> (of PYTHON fame). To download this minimal implemention of FORTH:
>
> http://www.mindspring.com/~mark_baker/forthscript.zip (full
sources)
> http://dev.remotenetworktechnology.com/files/forth.zip (complied)
>
> There are many languages that work within Windows Script (and thus
for ASCOM):
>
> VBScript (of course, Microsoft)
> JScript (ECMA standard, and IMO richer and easier, Microsoft))
> PerlScript - Yes you can use Perl for ASCOM
(http://www.activestate.com/)
> PYTHON - Awesome language, and totally ASCOM compatible
(http://python.org)
> ReXX - IBM oddball language (http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/obj-
rexx/)
> HaskellScript (http://www.haskell.org/haskellscript/)
> LuaScript (http://www.luascript.thersgb.net/luascript/)
> NullScript
(http://www.iwebthereforeiam.com/projects/NullScript.asp)
> RubyScript (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/)
> TCLScript http://tclscript.sourceforge.net/)
>
> -- Bob
>
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> Bob Denny
> rdenny@d...
>
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