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- From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: An Open ANSI Forth Implementation
- Message-ID: <4047.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 16:52:10 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
- Lines: 23
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- In article <4043.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- B.DUNN5 [Brian] writes:
- +You public domain Forth implementers: let's agree on something more than DUP.
- +Let's have portable structures to catch up with C, and portable windows to
- +perhaps pass them. All we have to do is agree.
-
- +You vendors: give us something we can't make ourselves in our spare time. Give
- +us something which can make our machines smoke along in full color, stereo, FP
- +copro'ed, MMU controlled, multiwindowed, AI driven glory.
-
- +As was quoted previously:
- + > Or maybe I'm just naive.
-
- I agree with the aricle you posted, esp. the parts quoted above.
-
- It seems to me that Forth's popularity/success/etc. has more to do with
- Political/Social/Pyschological issues than with technical details (though
- there are interconnections). If those goals are naive, then count me in the
- naive-but-hopeful column.
-
- -Doug
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