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- From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: "Free" Forth is expensive
- Message-ID: <14632@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 08:43:42 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: world
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- mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
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- > If the Forth community could AGREE on standards, they could begin to be
- > implemented cross-platforms. .... We have fought over SCREENS and FILES
- > while the rest of the world was discussing device-independant graphics!
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- Yes, we've discussed the language implementation, while the others have been
- holding discussions based on real applications. The C programmers have been
- writing applications for photorealistic rendering, and what the language needs
- for doing that portably; we've been discussing which of several (decades old)
- implementations of "/" should be standard.
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- Hmmm, no wonder Forth hasn't gotten very far in anything but embedded systems.
- :-/
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