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Subject: Forth in the Computer Journal
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Date: 20 Jan 91 15:25:33 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 13,  Topic 1
Message 9         Sat Jan 19, 1991
C.MCEWEN                     at 11:15 EST
 
Brad, don't take my comments as "warnings." I wrote them to acquaint those who
have never seen the journal with the kind of articles we carry. As a regular
reader, you are "up-to-speed" with the depth of articles the readership
expects. In the last editorial, I said that the TCJ readers are an educated,
literate group and you need not write to the lowest common denominator as many
editors would have you do. But we come from a variety of computer disciplines
so be prepared to give some definitions of terms. In any event, we can work
together with the article if you have any questions.

Issue #49 is closed out and we are working on #50. I have been asking our
contributing editors for their editorial plans in the upcoming issues. The
journal works with four general types of articles: Forth, Embedded Controllers
 and Robotics, CP/M and Z-System and General Interest. So far, all groups have
reported in except Forth. I would hate to see this interest group lightly
represented because of a lack of strong articles.

The message you responded to was written a week ago and you are the first to
take notice of it. Is this an indication that the Forth community is well
served elsewhere and TCJ is no longer needed? I ask this only to help plan the
future growth and direction of the publication. It seems counter to the
response I get from the readers -- the Forth readers are very active. But we
need a greater representation of them to justify the space devoted to Forth.
Please don't take that comment wrong: I *want* to support Forth. I also don't
want to feel like I am beating my head against a wall. :-)
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