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Subject: X3J14 Goals
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Date: 2 Jan 91 12:38:49 GMT
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 Date: 12-30-90 (18:13)              Number: 731 of 732 (Echo)
   To: B.RODRIGUEZ2 [BRAD]           Refer#: 2438
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: X3J14 GOALS                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

         Brad ... as for your question as to whether these people had
 "ten years experience or one year's experience ten times, let me expand
 upon my previous posting:

 ->
 ->       Bess Rather: ~20 years professional Forth experience.

 President, FORTH Inc. Forth systems for virtually every microprocessor
 have been developed during her tenure.

 ->       Greg Bailey: ~15 years professional Forth experience.

 Greg FORTHs mainframes. Big ones, for some serious commercial customers.
 He's on call virtually 24 hours a day for his corporate customers.

 ->       Don Colburn: ~15 years professional Forth experience.

 Pioneer of HP Forthing. Pioneer of MAC Forthing. First mouth to put
 money on the prospect of developing the NOVIX NC4000, his own money.

 ->       John Rible:  ~15 years professional Forth experience.

 A principal mover behind the NOVIX NC4000 and possessor of one of the
 most accurate and detail-oriented minds on the committee. If there is
 a short list of indispensible TC members, John is in the top 3.

  ->       John Hayes:  ~12 years professional Forth experience.

 John sends one-of-a-kind satellites into orbit for NASA programmed in
 Forth on custom Forth microprocessors. Not exactly something one learns
 by rote to repeat offhandedly. John is among the sharpest algorithmists
 in the Forth community.

         Like I said, this is a short list. Mitch Bradley has over a
 hundred thousand Forth systems in circulation. Andy Kobziar maintains a
 prestigious and huge commercial Forth accounting system. Larry Forsley
 holds a prestigious international Forth conference every year (even if
 his magazine *does* come late! :-) ), this year in Leningrad. Etc., etc
 ...

         These core people are not bozos, not Caligulas, not usurpers.
 They are a stellar cross-section of the best the Forth community has to
 offer in the way of working Forthers who desire a workable Standard for
 Forth which will lend credence and respectability to managers planning a
 Forth project and provide confidence for the programmers entrusted with
 the execution of same.

         =jax=

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