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From: dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: BASIS
Message-ID: <1598.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 24 Aug 90 05:05:57 GMT
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In <9008230622.AA29039@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM writes:
> 2) As we have seen, everybody appears to want a different machine-readable
>    format.

Sigh.  Maybe by the time the BASIS series is done and the draft proprosals
are started we could work something out?  Personally, I don't want an
on-line copy so that I can print it myself, or see it in nice fancy
graphics on my screen.  I want an on-line copy so I can search it, index
it, etc...

> point.  And it will also more clearly define the limits of portability
> in certain existing problem areas, such as the assumptions you can make
> about the behavior of HERE , CREATE , and ALLOT .

I think this is one of the most important things the ANSI effort will do.

-Doug

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