NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/lang/forth/2934

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Category 2,  Topic 2
Message 118       Wed Aug 12, 1992
E.RATHER [Elizabeth]         at 00:18 EDT

RE categorizing stuff: CATCH and THROW have been used by Mitch Bradley and (I
think) John Hayes and others I can't name at this point.

ENVIRONMENT? was requested by a number of users and programmers, sufficiently
strongly that we made an effort to satisfy their request.  Brad's point is
that this is invented technology, and I agree that this is one example of
that.  There aren't many.

ALLOCATE and FREE, again, came from Bradley in particular, and I believe
Martin Tracy cited at least a couple of others doing similar things.  Possibly
Ray Duncan?  It's been several years.

Both data structures and multitasking clearly fall into the category of things
that a number of implementors support (many, in the case of multitasking) but
the implementations differ so much that we failed to come up with acceptable
solutions.  We tried very hard in the case of multitasking, less so for data
structures (largely because people felt this was a very new and dynamic area
that would benefit from being allowed to mature a little further).
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