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- From: esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson)
- Subject: Re: ANS figFORTH
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Message-ID: <8842860@harvee.UUCP>
- References: <1992Jul15.115912.9846@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <l6lr0pINNsvk@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:16:44 GMT
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- In article <l6lr0pINNsvk@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> wmb@pi.Eng.Sun.COM
- (Mitch Bradley) writes:
- > References: <1992Jul15.115912.9846@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- > > We'll hope to get volunteers to join the group, so that we'll get not just
- > > another Forth, but THE Forth of the 90th!
- >
- > ... thus further eroding the ability of Forth vendors to make a profit,
- > thus ensuring that Forth will forever be relegated to a hobbyist language
- > or an academic curiosity.
- >
- > Down with free Forth systems.
-
- the perpetual sore point between free forths and pay forths will not go
- away as long as free forths "outperform" pay forths. I argue that
- the real (lasting?) solution to this problem is to use the free forths
- as a baseline for customer expectations. Then as a forth vendor, you
- must provide some type of added value to make it worth spending money
- on your forth.
-
- look at what is happening in the C compiler world with advent of the
- GNU compiler suite. the GNU compiler is the one to beat in terms
- of performance, code generation, portability, and support. The
- forth world has been going throught that trauma for many years, we
- just didn't know it :-)
-
- to traumatize an already abused quote, stand on the shoulders of
- free forths not on their toes. while you're at it, don't let them stand
- on your toes either...
-
- ---eric "free is good, free+value added is better"
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