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From: philj@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Phil K Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Marketing Forth
Summary: We need a "Turbo" Forth
Keywords: Forth, Broland, development environment, need
Message-ID: <5414@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 17:11:55 GMT
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Reply-To: philj@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Phil K Jansen)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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What we need is someone who will market a "Turbo" Forth.  This Forth would
have a development environment like Turbo Pascal or Quick C, or Smalltalk.

Screens are ugly (even if they do encourage short definitions)!  Browsing
through the source code (click on the word to see its definition) would be
so much cleaner and faster!

I've found in other languages that type checking is very useful to me to get
bugs out of my code.  Now maybe it is less necessary with bottom-up definition
testing available in Forth, but it would still be useful to have a Forth 'lint'
program.

In order to market a "Turbo" Forth we need to have name recognition.  I
suggest we call it "Trubo Forth".  The company name should be "Broland
Internatioal", and the president should be Phil(lippe) K(ahn)oopman.  At least
we'll get a lot of orders for software (though maybe not Forth).

I'll volunteer to be a vice president, but my last name doesn't start with K
so I can't be president.  Sales would suffer.

Phil(lippe) K(ahn)elly Jansen

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