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From: phil@eos.UUCP (Phil Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  YALW (Yet Another Language War)
Message-ID: <4230@eos.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 89 21:57:22 GMT
References: <19053@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <19053@louie.udel.EDU> pfaff@gemini.asd.contel.com (Ray Pfaff - Oakwood 457 934-8162) writes:

>You must mean done, not working.  Forth isn't a language to be used to get 
>something working quickly.
>I`ve worked in defense contracting for 10 years and I`ve never heard of Forth
>being  used as anything except a joke.
>
>Ray Pfaff

I think Phil Burke and his partner (whose name I have forgotten) would
take strong exception to this.  To refresh your memory: these two won
the speed programming contest that was held about two months ago,
using JFORTH on the Amiga   In fact, they were the ONLY two to complete
the assigned task in the alloted time, not just the first to finish.

They finished the very complex task, which entailed interfacing to an
obscure hardware character-generating gizmo, in approximately 90 minutes.
Time alloted was two hours.  It is safe to say they got "something
working quickly."

I have problems with FORTH in large applications, but it is definitely
an excellent language for quick implementation, and is definitely not
just a "joke."

		Phil Stone	 (phil@eos.arc.nasa.gov | ames!eos!phil)