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- From: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Forth Standard Debate
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:19:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.214739.11660@netcom.com> jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
- :Whoever wrote the following:
- :>>>>>
- :Forth has not been standardized, not at all, ever.
- :<<<<<
- :
- :(with apologies in advance) is sorely mistaken and misinformed.
- :
- :I was there, I saw the standards come out and I have copies of the figFORTH
- :installation manual (somewhere) as well as the FORTH-79 and FORTH-83 standard
- :descriptions.
- :
- :On the contrary, there's more than one standard! :)
- :
- I confess, it was picky hard to please me that wrote that.
- If you have more than one standard, it seems to me that you
- have no standard at all. A double standard is condemmed,
- and we seem to have at least three of them (with another
- comming soon).
-
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- Michael Coughlin mikc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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