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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- From: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ian Watters)
- Subject: Re: Documenting
- Reply-To: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:21:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.849047@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- Mike (who might learn to find the delete line key on his wonderful text
- system <grin>):
- > you don't realize it, but you might as well be arguing for piston-powered
- > airplanes being better than jets.
-
- But for *some* applications, piston-power *is* better than jet! (A jet
- powered micro-light or crop-sprayer, anyone?)
-
- Similarly, while good text-based systems are very very useful, blocks take
- minimal resources to implement in comparison. For the computer version of
- the micro-light, for example, blocks are the way to go.
-
- //\/\/ iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
-
- "We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
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