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Look at a scatterplot of 2D (pseudo)random numbers. It naturally has overdense regions and underdense regions. (By comparison, a scatterplot of "quasirandom" numbers appears more uniform; see more here.) This has nothing to do with poor pseudorandom number generation, psychological perception of nonexistent patterns, etc. — random numbers really do cluster at times. This led British citizens to believe that V-bomb strikes in South London had a particular pattern to them when they were really dispersed randomly.

Look at a scatterplot of 2D (pseudo)random numbers. It naturally has overdense regions and underdense regions. (By comparison, a scatterplot of "quasirandom" numbers appears more uniform; see more here.) This has nothing to do with poor pseudorandom number generation, psychological perception of nonexistent patterns, etc. — random numbers really do cluster at times. This led British citizens to believe that V-bomb strikes in South London had a particular pattern to them when they were really dispersed randomly.

Look at a scatterplot of 2D (pseudo)random numbers. It naturally has overdense regions and underdense regions. (By comparison, a scatterplot of "quasirandom" numbers appears more uniform; see more here.) This has nothing to do with poor pseudorandom number generation, psychological perception of nonexistent patterns, etc. — random numbers really do cluster at times. This led British citizens to believe that V-bomb strikes in South London had a particular pattern to them when they were really dispersed randomly.

Look at a scatterplot of 2D (pseudo)random numbers. It naturally has overdense regions and underdense regions. (By comparison, a scatterplot of "quasirandom" numbers appears more uniform; see more here.) This has nothing to do with poor pseudorandom number generation, psychological perception of nonexistent patterns, etc. — random numbers really do cluster at times. This led British citizens to believe that V-bomb strikes in South London had a particular pattern to them when they were really dispersed randomly.

Heh, that reminds me of the slashdot Markov program I wrote a while back. Here's a small sample output taken from this article's comments:

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Now tell me honestly that makes any less sense than the usual rambling slashdot posting ;-)

There's tons of other Forth dialects that actually meet his criteria of being a true Forth- and they run under every OS out there from DOS all the way to Linux.

ColorForth is his implementation of his idea of what Forth should be for him. If you can use it, fine. If not, find another Forth- I'm sure there will be other implementations that code for the x25 CPU at some point. People aren't using Strostroup's implementation of C++ or K&R's implementation of C either- for that very reason.

Go hit Taygeta Scientific's website for implementations of Forth that you can try out. For Linux users, I suggest BigForth from Bernd Paysan, BTW- it's a native code generating implementation with some GUI support that shows some promise for making usable apps, etc.

ANSI/ISO Standard Forth requires 31-character names as a minimum. You'll be hard-pressed to find a modern Forth that uses 3 characters plus length for symbol storage, though it was a useful technique in the days when memory was scarce.

I'm getting off topic, I suppose, but Legos aren't the only platform where FORTH is available and you are not going to waste your time learning it.

Versions, free and commercial, exist for any Unix with GCC, DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, Windows, the Palm Pilot, and dozens of microcontrollers. Did you know that FORTH is part of the Open Firmware provided in the Sun and the PowerMac boot proms? (Note IEEE requires a subscription, so check out Sun's OpenFirmware page)

The experience on one platform transfers well to another and there is lots to like about FORTH, especially when dealing with an environment with exceedingly limited resources in comparison to a PC.

This list of FORTH implementations by platform is a little dated but should point in the right direction.