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Subject: BASIS Feedback
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Date: 27 Jun 90 11:00:36 GMT
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Category 10,  Topic 35
Message 93        Tue Jun 26, 1990
W.BADEN1 [Wil]               at 21:25 PDT
 
The domain for Forth is absolutely expanding.  (Dare I say it again?) Forth's 
forte is its economy.  No matter how rich you get there is a place for 
economy.  

Forth is losing its amateur rating.  Forth was THE best language for  amateurs
(called "hackers" in those days, but that name has gotten a bad  new meaning).
Now it's a language for pro-pro's (professional  programmers).  Not all pro-
pro's though.  It's for pro-pro's who WANT to or  HAVE to dive into the muck
and mire of nitty-gritty programming.  But they  don't want to do it
completely bare-skin.  Forth is a prophylactic against the disease of raw
machine code.

Space exploration, production-line control, airport security -- these are big 
jobs.  

Forth is no longer a glamorous language.  It doesn't appeal for long to the 
idly curious.  50,000 bookstores can't all be wrong.  

Forth is an unglamorous language that is essential to certain BIG glamorous 
jobs.

Procedamus in pace.

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