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From: a684@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: FORTH as a language for Professional programmers
Message-ID: <2316@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 90 02:26:14 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> znmeb@fpssun.fps.com writes:
> 
> Pascal, FORTRAN, FORTH, ASSEMBLER, ADA, MODULA are ALL better languages than
> C.  So how come so many more Bookstore Shelf Inches are devoted to "C"??

The problem is that so many people look at the "Bookstore Shelf Inches" and
decide that they had better go with "C" (and Unix).  This means there is a
larger market for "C" books, therefore more people write "C" books....and
around it goes.  :)

If FORTH had been promoted for mainframe use (with a proper user-unfriendly
interface), early enough, it might have had a larger section of "Bookstore
Shelf Inches".  We can't change the past; the important task is to promote
FORTH for the future.