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Subject: Re: Well, how would *you* describe it?
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Date: 24 Aug 89 18:08:34 GMT
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FORTH:  Forth isn't a car.  It isn't even a kit.  It's a set of basic
        principles used in building a car from scratch.  Most people
        don't do that, though; instead they buy one somebody else
        built and tinker with it until they've got what they want.
        But the principles are so simple, intuitive, and universal,
        that you could use them as a base for building anything
        from a go-cart to a moon ship.  So far there are lots of
        go-carts, a few Cadillacs, and no moon ships.

-- R. David Murray    (DAVID@PENNDRLS.BITNET, DAVID@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU)