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- Subject: Forth in the Marketplace
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 12:17:30 GMT
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- Category 2, Topic 11
- Message 122 Tue Sep 08, 1992
- E.RATHER [Elizabeth] at 23:42 EDT
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- Mueller and SV-FIG presented some interesting ideas, although I have
- reservations about whether concealing fundamental concepts e.g. postfix
- notation is the way to present it successfully. If people want to use BASIC,
- they can and will.
-
- But I am intrigued by the concept of a shell like a set of training wheels
- that could go on top of various implementations. Rather than develop "yet
- another Forth" with these characteristics, it seems like a great idea to
- present it as a shell, much like some of the UNIX shells that helped overcome
- some of its more obnoxious features a few years ago.
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