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From: dcp@world.std.com (David C. Petty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANS FORTH TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
Keywords: ANS Forth
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.043213.11677@world.std.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 04:32:13 GMT
References: <2055.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Reply-To: dcp@world.std.com (David C. Petty)
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <2055.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>,
JACK WOEHR writes:

``       The main dramas left in the process consist of
``
``         - seeing whether a last minute charge of a light brigade
``           of 79-STANDARD programmers will overthrow the last three
``           years of work;

From _The Charge of the Boston FIG_ after Alfred Lord Tennyson 
(1809-1892) (whose poem _The Charge of the Light Brigade_ was first 
published in the  December 9, 1854 `Examiner').  

                  II
        `Forward the Boston FIG!'
        They would never renege
        On stopping untried
          Words being chosen.
        Theirs not to make reply,
        Theirs not to reason why,
        Theirs but to do and die.
        Into the jaws of ANSI
          Propos'd the dozen.

                  III
        Locals to right of them,
        CATCH / THROW to left of them,
        WORDLIST in front of them
          BASIS was frozen;
        It forced them to rebel,
        Boldly they wrote and well,
        To the jaws of ANSI,
        Into the mouth of hell
          Propos'd the dozen.
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