Chain Events
Volume Number: 9
Issue Number: 12
Column Tag: Jörg's Folder
Apple Event Handlers in MacForth 
Changing the main event loop with executable chains
By Jörg Langowski, MacTech Magazine Regular Contributing Author
Note: Source code files accompanying article are located on MacTech CD-ROM orsource code disks.
Which Macintosh programming environment - other than Forth - do you know
where you can change the main event loop on the fly, plug in new routines or change
them while you’re trying them out, or even while your application is running? Maybe
Lisp, but certainly none of the development systems (C and C++ of various flavors,
Pascal, maybe Fortran and Basic) that account for the majority of all applications on
the market. You can solve some of these problems through runtime binding in C++, but