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- From: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin)
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- Subject: Re: Fixing the Standards - WHY??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.142539.20202@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:25:39 GMT
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- In article <76236@ut-emx.uucp> hasan@ut-emx.uucp (David A. Hasan) writes:
- :In article <1992Jul18.214518.574@mala.bc.ca> bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
- :>
- :>If you want real standards { and your hands tied } feel free to use C
- :>or Ada or Pascal.
- :>
- : ...
- :IMHO, the REAL danger lurking behind this reluctance of
- :many in the FORTH community to accept the notion of
- :standardization is not the migration of programmers to
- :C, Pascal or Ada (that migration is very likely driven
- :by many other factors). The REAL danger is that other
- :languages which are _both_ standardized and flexible
- :will replace FORTH as the alternative to C et al., for
- :example, Scheme.
- :--
- : | David A. Hasan
- : | hasan@emx.utexas.edu
-
- Scheme is one of the numerious variants of Lisp. So if Scheme
- is a competitor to Forth, then there is hope that an extensible
- language can be put into a standard form. Picking one variant
- and giving it a certain name is an advantage in the standards
- game. Perhaps we will have to take the most promising variant
- of Forth and call it something else before it can become a
- standard.
-