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Subject: 1990 FORML
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Date: 9 Dec 90 23:33:24 GMT
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Category 5,  Topic 16
Message 22        Sun Dec 09, 1990
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 14:53 CST
 
 Mitch, it is a rare treat when you do agree with me and usually it is 
instructive when you disagree. 
 .
 MB>To each his own.  Nobody forces anybody to use F-PC.
 .
 I agree completely.  Without it existing I wouldn't be able to  disagree with
its direction.  I'm quite content to allow others to use  it as they please. 
I could even see myself using it, fairly happily,  under certain
circumstances.
 .
 I am happier with the idea of bringing up a Forth quickly by using  your C
Forth 83 approach than I am with the MASM approach.  I'm sure  this disclaimer
is not needed, but almost everything I've been posting  lately has a lot to do
with emotion and what I (perhaps unexplainably)  like or dislike rather than
with cold, hard logic.  (Although I do  think I have logic on my side
regarding eforth & MASM.)  I don't like  MASM!  I will not use MASM.  (Yes I
will.  I'll program in ANYTHING if  the price is right.)  If I were to use a
non-Forth 80x86 assembler I  would almost certainly use the shareware A86 -
which is great.  Better,  simpler, faster, and also fully compatible than MASM
(so I believe).  It's probably available in the IBM roundtable for downloading
- and  Bill Gates won't get a dime.  
 .
 I have been under the impression that to put Forth on a new machine  using
your C approach requires that one have a C compiler available on  that
machine.  Am I in error on this point?  If the C compiler is  required it
would still seem to leave a place for something like eforth  on various
systems.
 .
 I'm glad to have met you at FORML and to have heard your fine singing.
 .
  -- Frank
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