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Subject: What's WRONG with Forth?
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Date: 19 Mar 90 02:52:22 GMT
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 Date: 03-17-90 (21:29)              Number: 3039 (Echo)
   To: MICHAEL HOBSON                Refer#: 3024
 From: IAN GREEN                       Read: 03-17-90 (22:48)
 Subj: FORTH                         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

    When I commented upon my confusion I didn't intend to 'bash' Forth. I
 was simply pointing out how n-teen ways of doing something makes it a 
 bit hard to figure out what is going on. I have managed to make some 
 progress getting F83 to cooperate thanks to various persons on this 
 conference and their suggestion. On my PC I am using the F83.ZIP
 package as it seems to be a fairly complete implementation of a
 'standard'.
    I lamented simply because I was getting a bewildering variety of 
 suggestion as to how to do something. Forth, because it is 
 comparitively easy to implement, seems to have gone the do-it-yourself
 route with the result of a 'zillion' flavors of Forth being offered up. 
 I think I can manage now that I have a clearer idea of what makes the 
 language 'tick'.

 Ian Green

 NET/Mail : British Columbia Forth Board - Burnaby BC - (604)434-5886   
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