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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 18 Jan 90 02:27:11 GMT
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Category 1,  Topic 2
Message 25        Tue Jan 16, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 23:35 EST
 
 > You want to take a guess at the percentage of Forth programmers
 > who are members of FIG?  One in a hundred?

That would make over 200,000 Forth programmers.  I'm not sure I could justify
that high of a figure, but I don't know of any hard facts to uphold any
number.  If we are guessing, I'd go with only
 about half that number or even less.  Still, I would be comfortable with
saying the FIG members account for less that 5% of the Forth communitee.  That
would also imply that the best we have ever done is to have about 10% of them
pay the membership fees.  Therefore, I am less worried about the 5% that we
lost due to rising costs than I am about how to attract the other 90% to give
us a chance.

DaR
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