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Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 14 Jan 91 04:39:40 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 01-10-91 (12:15)              Number: 845 of 846
   To: ROGER LEE                     Refer#: NONE
 From: IAN WATTERS                     Read: NO
 Subj: The Stupid Question           Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 RL]how can ANSI set a standard on a language that changes on a daily basis?

 Because they were asked to  :-)

 Standards are there to allow portability of code.  They're always going to
 be somewhat behind the times and there will always be non-standard systems,
 but they do provide a very useful basis (no pun intended) to work from.

 Aside from that, the distribution of an ANSI standard brings a certain status
 to the Forth community.

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