Tag Archives: forth

future developments? OS X, Cocoa and Forth

By Han-earl Park | Published: October 17, 2011

Roelf Toxopeus has written a Mac OS X / Cocoa interface for SwiftForth and iForth [examples/screenshots…]. He writes: Cocoa GUI interface for Darwin based Forth systems. Goals: – Similar in usage as other interfaces in MacForth and Mach2. Think of things like NEW-XXX ADD.XXX etc. – No hacks, no shortcuts. Should survive OS upgrades! Follow their rules. [...]

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hp->midi initial test

By Han-earl Park | Published: November 8, 2008

Proof of concept of the table lookup version of the hp->midi, hp->pan and hp->cent words. hp->midi test 11-08-08_00 [mp3] linear-table ctrl-table ! linear-table pan-table ! linear-1200-cent-table cent-table ! hp->midi test 11-08-08_01 [mp3] scurve-table ctrl-table ! scurve-table pan-table ! linear-1200-cent-table cent-table ! hp->midi test 11-08-08_02 [mp3] scurve-table ctrl-table ! scurve-table pan-table ! scurve-1200-cent-table cent-table ! Notes: [...]

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hp->midi early report

By Han-earl Park | Published: November 7, 2008

One area in which I’ve been concerned with the question of optimization vs. elegance is in the hp->midi word (a ‘word’ is Forth parlance for function / procedure / subroutine). This word takes the hp_ values (with a range of -hp_range/2 to hp_range/2), which io’s cognitive innards generate, and translates them into legal MIDI control [...]

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software optimization vs. elegance

By Han-earl Park | Published: November 4, 2008

When started writing what became io 0.0.1 beta in ’99, having thrown out a whole bunch of old material, I made an effort to write elegant code. This was partly because of the complexity of this project (which would end up in the region of 25,000 lines of code), but also a reaction to the [...]

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