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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: TO ANSI TEAM
Message-ID: <20106@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 3 Sep 90 07:08:31 GMT
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dwp@willett.pgh.pa.us (Doug Philips) writes:

>> I think that it is quite legitimate for users of Forth to have as 
>> their "burning issue":
>>    
>>       Will I be able to write significant programs portably
>>       in the new Standard?

>Without intending to flame John in particular or in general, I do not think
>it is the job of the TC to go out and prove to everyone that their favorite
>code can be written in the current BASIS/dpANS.

	Hey hey hey! Wait a sec!

	YES YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WRITE SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMS PORTABLY
	IN THE NEW STANDARD!

		That's the whole point of all this other BS that
has everyone bent out of shape. It's the work we have done to make
Forth portable.

	In other words, we're rewriting the language. There. I said it
so shoot me.

	My opinions don't necessarily reflect the rest of X3J14 TC.
As a matter of fact, rarely.

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