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Date: 3 Sep 90 04:08:00 GMT
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Message 39        Sun Sep 02, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 11:41 CDT
 
     Len made this comment in the Haydon guest conference:  

 >  In every Forth I know except one, TIB is the Address of the 
 >terminal input buffer. In Pygmy, it is a variable that contains the 
 >address. That little bit of non-standardization cost me half a day's 
 >work. This is an example of why standards are necessary.

     And, the question has come up previously as well.

     I would like to think that, rather than costing Len half a day's  work,
it provided him an opportunity (a laboratory, if you will) for  honing his
opinions about standards.

     I have always said that a quality education is expensive.

     I would like to quote from the fig-FORTH GLOSSARY:

           TIB       --- addr                     U
                     A user variable containing the
                     address of the terminal input
                     buffer.

     So, I believe Pygmy is in good company regarding its method of  handling
TIB.

     I hope I have not, and I believe I have not, misled anyone into  thinking
that Pygmy Forth is an attempt to implement the/a "standard."

     I really enjoyed Glen Haydon's remarks in the guest conference, 
especially his comments about free markets.

  -- Frank
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