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- From: ah739@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leslie J. Somos)
- Subject: Re: Forth Taught at Schools/Universities
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 13:47:08 GMT
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- In a previous article, ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) says:
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- >Category 2, Topic 2
- >Message 116 Thu Aug 06, 1992
- >E.RATHER [Elizabeth] at 00:25 EDT
- >
- >Re the recently quoted: > My own view is that a standard should solidify,
- >clarify, extract,
- > and document existing practice. The problem is in identifying "existing
- >practice." Does it mean:
- > (a) Stuff previously standardized (remember, it's been 10 years since FORTH-
- >83)?
- No, at least not without examining it. Otherwise, you get "but, we've
- _always_ done it this way."
- > (b) Stuff that one implementor with lots of users has done for years?
- Again, no. There are vendors that do things their own way, but almost
- _all_ their users are unhappy.
- > (c) Stuff that most implementors have done some way, but their approaches
- >differ (in which case, how to find a synthesis or pick one?)?
- > (d) Stuff that <n> implementors do (in which case, what is <n>? And, as in
- >(c), how to resolve different approaches to the same problem?)?
-
- You need both users and vendors on standards committees.
- Users alone could come up with all sorts of blue-sky nice-to-have.s,
- but have a hard time finding a vendor to implement them.
- Vendors alone would stick with what's easiest for them.
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- >
- >These are the issues the standards team has wrestled with to the best of its
- >ability.
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