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Date: 1 Jul 90 03:15:24 GMT
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 Date: 06-28-90 (09:13)              Number: 680 (Echo)
   To: R.BERKEY [ROBERT]             Refer#: 676
 From: RAY DUNCAN                      Read: NO
 Subj: LMI FORTH(S)                  Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

   >meanwhile, code will not port to LMI systems.

 This is silly.  I have no particular interest or concern in whether you
 can port some contrived piece of code to our system.  I have literally
 megabytes of source code written in LMI Forth which wouldn't port to
 polyFORTH or F-PC without massive changes, but that doesn't mean that
 polyFORTH and F-PC are not useful, valid systems in their own right.

 You need to think carefully about the image you are presenting here,
 Robert, since you seem to have annointed yourself spokesman and guru for
 ANSI X3J14.  The charter of X3J14 is to standardize existing practice,
 not invent a new language and not to serve as a forum for Forth
 dilettantes.

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