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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: F83 vs F-PC vs ??
Summary: Forth Classic vs. Turbo Forth
Keywords: fpc, f83, zimmer, laxen, perry
Message-ID: <14755@well.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 05:58:59 GMT
References: <13959@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <13959@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> lantis@argus.math.orst.edu () writes:
>I don't want to start a civil war, but what are the advantages of F83 and
>F-PC, and what are the disadvantages of each?  Is one any great improvement

	F83 is simpler and built along classical lines. FPC is more
sophisticated and more complicated. Both are complete language systems
in which fine applications have been written.

>over the other?  What about other public domain forths?

	There's no end to them. What about them?

	On the Amiga, I recommend A4TH1.5
  
>I have tried
>uniforth, and it was interesting, but the sampler did not include a 
>decompiler and the full version was over $250.

	UNIFORTH is very interesting, as are other commercial Forths
for the DOS world, including Druma Forth, H/S Forth, LMI Forth, polyFORTH,
and many others.

>  The reason I am asking this
>is I have F83 version 2.0 and someone I know sent a note saying they had
>falling in love with F-PC.  This made me wonder if I was missing something.

	You're missing Turbo Forth.

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