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- Subject: Re: ANS figFORTH
- Message-ID: <2178708@overmind.citadel>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 03:48:00 GMT
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- Path: interface!b0b From: b0b@interface.via.mind.org (Bob Lee)
- Subject: Re: ANS figFORTH Message-ID: <ZJJcoB1w165w@interface.via.mind.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:58:22 PDT Organization: Interface BBS, 707-544-9661,
- ForthNet
- nick@sw.stratus.com writes:
- # wmb@pi.Eng.Sun.COM (Mitch Bradley) writes: # > # > ... 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. # > # > Mitch # # I
- understand your sentiment, but I don't agree with you. From personal #
- experience, I've bought a bunch of Forth implementations (yours included,) #
- to run on Atari 8-bitters, an Amiga and a Mac. I would probably not have #
- bought any, had I not been introduced to Forth via freebie Forths on each #
- platform. (The first hit is always free I guess. :-)
- I tend to agree with Nick. I would never have bought FORTHMACS if I hadn't
- learned the basics on a PD Forth. Mitch, your system offers a lot of "value
- added" features over the standard PD systems, and those features *do* sell
- your product.
- I like being able to give a high school kid a good PD implementation to play
- with. Just as a software house demands a good, value added Forth, a student
- needs a free, standard system to learn on. I'd never recommend a PD Forth
- for serious development (for a variety of reasons), but they do fill
- educational and hobbiest needs nicely.
- Up with free Forth systems!
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