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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Files VS Blocks, a compromise
Summary: I'd help you IF...
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.145349.5770@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 14:53:49 GMT
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In article <33553@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, carroll@cis.udel.edu (Mark Carroll) writes:
> Then, about a week ago, I found Fifth. Fifth is FAR from what I'm looking
> for, but it gave me the ideas that I needed. I still want more from the
> language: I want to be able to have a module export more than one word,
> I want data structures, etc. But the basic model is wonderful.
> 
> What I'm looking at doing is implementing something like Fifth, with
> a lot of extensions, but still based on the same Forth model, only with
> a fancy xwindows browser programming interface.
> 
> 	<MC>

Hi, I'd help with Design and Implementation If we based it on Display
Postscript rather than "brain Dead" X. Really! We could then put X
on top of that for sales. FIFTH people have a custom Postscript,
and NEWS (SUN) and NEXT all are DPS based. 

Seriously in Fun, Clyde