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- From: jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Forth Standard Debate
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.025228.11736@netcom.com>
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- References: <1i7flnINN9or@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan4.214739.11660@netcom.com> <1ihl5vINNr1o@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:52:28 GMT
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- In article <1ihl5vINNr1o@life.ai.mit.edu> mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin) writes:
- >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.
-
- Well then, be truthful.
-
- > 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).
-
- Standards are conveniences for the vendor. Said vendor doesn't have to write
- the whole manual; can refer to others.
-
- It's also a convenience to users: portability to other vendors' forths.
-
- Forth _is not_ and probably never will be carved in stone. Forth is the poor
- man's integrated dev environment. If you like it, use it. In either case,
- please don't provide disinformation. That does alot more harm than good.
- (you _are_ here for good, right? Not just to watch a <quote> condemned <unquote>
- ship sink?)
-