==== Discussion ====

=== If ever there was an application "made for Forth", surely it would be astroimaging  ===

  * Chuck Moore invented Forth at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
  * FORTH Inc, and Leon Wagner are actively controlling radio dishes with Forth
  * There is a fertile professional-amateur collaboration in algorithms and techniques - very Forth!
  * Interesting technical aspects span from simple motor controllers through to sophisticated image manipulation algorithms
  * Forth-quality engineering "under the hood" would be a great practical benefit

=== Yet the case for Forth is perhaps not compelling ===

  * Hard to find any recent history of Forth being used in this field as a starting point
  * Access to all essential libraries will have to be "plumbed in" from nothing, even SQLite
  * Floating point, infix, mathematical algorithms need to be implemented "from the textbook"

=== What is the right approach for including Forth? ===

  * A longer, bottom-up project to develop a stack of astronomy-related data structures and libraries?
  * Development of Forth as a general inter-application "glue language", rather like REXX or Amiga AREXX?
    * Wolf Wejgaard's [[https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/TclForth | TclForth ]] 
    * Why do you need TclForth if Tcl already does everything you need?
  * A niche tool for some local, small-scale problem solving (perhaps custom user hardware)?

=== What do you think? ===

----
<- [[tcl | The Tcl surprise]]

<= [[start | Can I do this in Forth?]]