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From: bwildasi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Forth in Geos! part 3 of 3
Keywords: Forth, Geos, Fun
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Date: 25 Oct 89 18:20:50 GMT
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Sender: bwildasi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Ben Wildasin)
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With all the geoDiscussion currently going on here on the net, I thought
it would be an ideal time to ask some questions that I have been wondering
about for quite some time. 

1. Could someone post a list of all the languages currently available to
run under GEOS? Which of these languages work in 80 columns? Of those that
don't, do they work in 40 columns in GEOS 128 or only in GEOS 64?

2. I am especially interested in Scheme (a lexically-scoped dialect of LISP).
If anyone else is interested, please post your suggestions. Maybe if there's
enough demand, someone will write one.

3. What is the chance that someone could write a virus and put it in a posted
program or one on a BBS? Is there a virus checker available for GEOS?

4. I think that all this stuff warrants creation of a comp.binaries.cbm,
comp.os.geos, comp.binaries.geos, or some other such thing. Is anyone else
interested?




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Ben Wildasin * Mail: bwildasi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu * Phone: (812) 332-0245 
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"Since there was once water on Mars, probably there is enough oxygen there to
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