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- From: eaker@ukulele.crd.ge.com (Chuck Eaker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Forth Standard Debate
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.145950.19966@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 14:59:50 GMT
- References: <1i7flnINN9or@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan4.214739.11660@netcom.com> <1ihl5vINNr1o@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1ihl5vINNr1o@life.ai.mit.edu>, mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin) writes:
- |> If you have more than one standard, it seems to me that you
- |> have no standard at all.
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- This is ludicrous. Users of FORTRAN (1966, 1977, 1990), C (1
- de facto with 1 on the way), Ada (1980 with another on the way),
- and COBOL (1968, 1974, and one on the way), will assure you that
- two or more standards are infinitely better than none.
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