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Subject: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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Date: 15 Jul 90 22:58:01 GMT
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Message 27        Sun Jul 15, 1990
GARY-S                       at 07:29 EDT
 
             
 Subject: How will others see ANS Forth?
 In article Message-ID: <9899@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
                    koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) writes:

 >I had a conversation with a Peter Lee of CMU this week about
 >the ANS Forth Standard effort.  Peter is a professor in the
 >School of CS in the advanced programming language group. 
 > 
 >Some folks are worried about how Forth will be judged when
 >outsiders see the new standard.  My brief interaction with
 >Peter indicates that perhaps there is some merit to their
 >concern.  One way to solve this would be to find a few
 >non-Forthers to review the standard in its penultimate form.
 >This should include both engineers and computer scientists
 >who are *not* Forth experts.  I can probably talk Peter into
 >a 1- or 2-hour review.  Can anyone else recruit people from 
 >their organizations?  Will folks on X3J14 listen if we
 >go to this trouble?

   Phil - IF you do go to that much trouble, we will be happy to make
   the  GEnie Forth Real-Time Conference facility available for this 
   discussion. The transcript would then be available for distribution
   by whatever means you choose. I would recommend via servers, but I
   will leave that to your good offices. We would maintain a copy on
   GEnie and I am guessing Tommy Rolf would be willing to archive a 
   copy on OLIS. We will have to wait for a reply from Tommy to be sure
   that he would do so. I would also recommend distribution to the X3J14
   committeee members.
    Gary 
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