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- From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Forth will Replace C
- Message-ID: <4052.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 17:22:05 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Sep11.123911.21622@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin) writes:
- + The obfuscated C contest is very popular, but Forth should
- +do things in the opposite way that C does to gain efficiency. There
- +should be a Forth beauty contest. I could be a judge in such a
- +contest. If I read the comments and understand the program,
- +the author deserves a prize.
-
- To me, comments would detract from a beautiful Forth program, as they would
- indicate its failure to communicate with me directly.
-
- But I like the idea of the contest. Would you want to restrict it to a
- particular dialect of Forth?
-
- -Doug
-
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