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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: What If Nobody Cared?
Message-ID: <1240.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 90 03:56:34 GMT
Organization: Latest link in the ForthNet chain.  (Pgh, PA)
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Category 10,  Topic 38
Message 2         Thu Jun 28, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 02:02 CDT
 
 WB>The purpose of a standards committee is to standardize, not invent.   
 WB>Creative impulses should only be used to resolve existing 
 WB>conflicts.

   I'm afraid they can use "to resolve existing conflicts" to justify 
anything.  I think it has already been used to excuse INVERT and  dropping
VOCABULARY and adding the funny new division words and adding  CATCH & THROW,
etc.

  -- Frank
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