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Subject: Non-Forth systems/languages.
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Date: 19 Jul 90 02:32:00 GMT
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 Date: 07-17-90 (12:57)              Number: 3523 (Echo)
   To: JERRY SHIFRIN                 Refer#: 3516
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: AM I NUTS, OR WHAT?           Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Well, you have to figure it would take a pretty bright individual to 
 create a compiler that can overcome all the best intentions of both 
 programmers and language designers (all of whom are striving to produce 
 clarity and comprehensibility, right?) to produce obfuscated code that 
 nobody can make sense of!  It's just that after all the stress that has 
 been placed on clarity, all the criticisms of forth as "write only" to 
 come upon a commercial product whose purpose it is to undo all that...
 I'll admit it, I was flabbergasted.
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