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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Off BASIS
Message-ID: <20081@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 Aug 90 05:07:37 GMT
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JAJZ801@CALSTATE.BITNET ("Jeff Sicherman,CSU Long Beach") writes:

>but I can't escape the by the opinion that the committee's intent, by
>and large, was to protect their own interests and perspectives.

	Jeff ... 

	I can tell by your many postings that you really care about
Forth ... thank you for your interest.

	It is easy to get concerned when the Standard Committee seems
so far away and unreachable. Let me tell you what is really happening
there.

	About 20 regulars are, at mostly their own (considerable and
unrenumerated) expense attending these meetings again and again, as
they drag on, out of devotion to the Forth programming model and
their own ideas of it.

	We are all getting kicked in the ass financially. We did not
distribute in WORD [TM] format for fun. It's because that is what the
BASIS is in, done lovingly and occasionally clumsily by a semi-retired
engineer who falls asleep a lot at the meetings. We don't have the time
or money to port it to ten other formats. Sorry.

	Keep online for ANS Forth, Jeff! It's coming, glacially slow,
but we're trying ... come to our next meeting, if you wish, everyone
is invited. It really is a free-for-all ... if we were in this for
the money, we'd do it in C! :-)

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