Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a684
From: a684@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: What If Nobody Cared?
Message-ID: <2348@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 14:34:12 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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An ANSI approved standard also means that there are enough people serious
enough about a language to go to all the time, trouble and expense of
developing it.

Now is the time for a push on marketing.  If the various computer and
programming publications were flooded (minor flood?) with articles praising
FORTH, showing how well it handles problems, how it reduces programming time,
how the new ANSI standard ensures portability (use creative exaggeration (-: ),
etc, FORTH could gain a lot of new users.  Positive reinforcement would come
into effect: the more articles written, the more interest there is in FORTH,
and therefore more people writing.  It worked for C.

Now is also a good time to add to bookstore "shelf-inches" for FORTH.  There's
certainly going to be at least one book (ANSI Standard FORTH); adding a few
more titles soon after might give the impression, "Hey, there's something
happening with this language.  Maybe I should take a look."

The ANSI standard is a great opportunity for renewing interest in FORTH; it
would be sad to see it wasted.  :(