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From: jjwoehr@nyx.UUCP (jack joseph woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Apology for Delay
Summary: Accepted, Now Apologize for Your Hyperbole :-)
Keywords: foo,frah,control,realtime,embedded,systems
Message-ID: <1640@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 90 16:21:24 GMT
References: <11929@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <YQS4EOE@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: jjwoehr@nyx.UUCP (jack joseph woehr)
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In article <YQS4EOE@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>If Forth is to survive, long term, I suspect that it will only be in the
>form of Postscript. This is a pity, but judging by the tower of babel it's
>become it's almost a mercy-killing.
>-- 

	Oh, Pete, Pete ... what gilded nonsense! Forth is growing
dramatically in its share of realtime control projects.

	Economically, Forth is drawing more dollars this year than
ever before. It just ain't happening in that ivory tower all you
desktoppers and mainframers live in :-)

	The control programming market in the U.S. has been estimated
at $2 billion dollars annually. (EDN) Estimates of Forth's share of
that market range from 9% to 15%.

	To match your rhetorical flight, let me quote Gary Betts (Universal
Synergetics, memb. ANS X3J14) about the prospect of Forth surviving on
in realtime control projects only:

	"We had the dinosaurs, but now they are all gone. Yet the lowly
chicken remains to this day."

		=jax= ``onothimagain''