So I clicked the "Forth" tag in my last entry in the vain hope that someone else was writing about that quirky and beautiful little beast of a language, and I found that my last post about Forth dates from almost exactly a year ago.  A WHOLE YEAR AGO!  Damn, there's no way a whole year has gone by.

[And yeah, I'm the only one tagging Forth the language.  Sigh.]

But it did get me wondering - what is it about this time of year that turns my mind towards Forth?  Is this the time of year I wrote my Highschool physics experiment program in Forth?

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We did a simple soundwave cancellation experiment, and I provided the wave generator - my Apple//c and a forth control word called "hz" which took a number of herz and generated a square wave at that speed until you pressed a key.  So we'd type in, for example, "200 hz" and then compute where the wave cancellations would be relative to the stereo speakers, then we used a sound meter to measure sound across the room to see if the nodes landed on the right spots.  Amazingly, it worked.  Amazing, because I had to carefully compute the execution time of "hz" to match up with the computer's clock frequency, etc.  Fun stuff.

Maybe it's just that I get depressed at this time of year (sadly, not ONLY at this time of year) and Forth programming gives me a nostalgia flashback to my Highschool days.  Who knows, and who cares.  It's probably just an odd coincidence.