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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Bill's DOES
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Date: 18 Aug 90 16:21:03 GMT
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Reply-To: Mitch Bradley <wmb%MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV>
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> _Why_ hasn't Ragsdale's idea [for a CREATE DOES> syntax with the
> DOES> part first] caught on?

Speculation:

1) People do not read the literature.
2) DOES> is sort of an advanced concept; many Forth users never
   master it.  Fewer still run into its limitations.
3) I can't recally ANYTHING that has ever caught on just because
   somebody wrote a paper about it.  Generally, a technique has to
   appear in a major implementation before it achieves widespread use.

Mitch