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- From: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Free Forth
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.151245.18215@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 15:12:45 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.132732.10393@exu.ericsson.se> <1992Aug14.173059.20181@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <BtCvML.Lzu@starnine.com>
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- In article <BtCvML.Lzu@starnine.com> mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
- >
- >The trend is more & more memory in the machine, so what do I care
- >if a Forth takes up 100k or 500k if I have Megs to work with?
- >
-
- A small Forth fits in a human mind better than a big one. You can
- do more with a system that you understand very well than you can with
- a big system that you don't understand. Forth works very well in a
- small space since it uses a few good ideas put together in a clever
- way. It is a much better way to do things than filling up all
- available memory with more code than a single person can comprehend.
-