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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 19 Jan 90 23:18:30 GMT
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 Date: 01-18-90 (08:58)              Number: 2790 (Echo)
   To: DENNIS RUFFER                 Refer#: 2787
 From: JERRY SHIFRIN                   Read: NO
 Subj: FEEDBACK TO THE FORTH INT     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 > You want to take a guess at the percentage of Forth programmers
 > who are members of FIG?  One in a hundred?

 DR>That would make over 200,000 Forth programmers.  I'm not sure I could
 DR>justify that high of a figure, but I don't know of any hard facts to 
 DR>uphold any number.  If we are guessing, I'd go with only about half that

 Sounds reasonable to me. I guess the real answer depends on what
 we mean by a Forth programmer -- someone who does full-time Forth
 programming; someone who dabbles in Forth; someone who knows
 Forth; or someone who's bought a copy of STARTING FORTH?

 As for the latter, I believe Elizabeth has stated that 100,000
 copies have been sold.  I guess that should be the upper bound.
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