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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 21 Jan 90 00:06:22 GMT
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Category 18,  Topic 11
Message 4         Sat Jan 20, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 16:40 EST
 
Reply to Tom Almy, who writes:

 > Why should it be that important that Forth users are FIG members,
 > as far as Forth is concerned?  What percentage of C users are in
 > a C users group? I'd guess far less than 1%, probably less than
 > .1%, yet look how successful it is.
 > You only need a users group if you have to band together for
 > support, and I feel Forth has matured beyond that point.

Tom, it is not important to Forth that the users of the language belong to
FIG, the language has matured enough to be self sustaining.  However, it is
important to have some members if FIG is going to survive.  For a C users
group, 1% or even .1% is a significant number of people, but for Forth those
same percentages represent too few people to make FIG a viable organization.

Yes, Forth has matured beyound the point of needing FIG, yet I am convinced
that there is a role that FIG can still play in the evolution of the language.
I have read some good suggestions from all of you, and it is my, and the other
members of the Board of Directors, jobs to see how we can accomplish them.  We
are due to have our annual planning meeting soon and I will bring each of
these suggestions up for discussion.  I can not say that we will follow any of
them, but I can say that I will try.

Thanks for your input.   DaR
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