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Subject: LMI Forth(s)
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Date: 27 May 90 03:03:36 GMT
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 Date: 05-24-90 (20:42)              Number: 600 (Echo)
   To: JERRY SHIFRIN                 Refer#: 597
 From: JOHN SOMERVILLE                 Read: NO
 Subj: UR FORTH                      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Thanks for the offer, you may be letting yourself in for more than your 
 bargained for. I got away from FORTH  for a while and was doing quite a 
 bit with PASCAL, but found that object oriented stuff ended up with some
 pretty large files. Some of the stuff I was working on ate up 90 K just 
 to create a menu, in addition I bought a 386 to get compile times down
 to something reasonable. You don't need a 386 for run of the mill
 stuff in FORTH.
    .
 Right now I am putting together tools for databases. As I mentioned 
 earlier, I thought of looking at someone else's code for ideas. However 
 sometimes it is just easier to write one's own from scratch. 
 .
 I like UR. It performs as advertised and I have had little trouble 
 getting it to do what I want. The biggest error I made was jumping into 
 assembler prematurely. I got rather a bad burn on one thing I was doing 
 so I went and hid in a corner for a while. 

 regards j

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