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From: jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Eric's funny for the day
Message-ID: <23224@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 19 Feb 91 04:19:38 GMT
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esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson) writes:

	... <stuff> ...

>Well... Using C instead of forth *is* the option picked by most
>managers of software projects.

	Yeah, it's a gas. To program our Vesta Technology SBC68K
68000/68010-based single board computer you can:

	a) Grab an XT Clone with two floppies and MSDOS 2.1 and buy
	our Vesta Forth-83A+ for $99.00, or

	b) Grab a 386 with a big harddrive and buy our C Compiler and
	source-level debugger for $3495.00.

	In house we use our Forth-83A+ for projects because we run
coencentric rigns around C programmers in terms of productivity.

	I'm sure glad that most of our competitors use C, it guarantees
that we underbid them every time. For your next custom engineered
control project, give Vesta a call. <plug>

	When in UNIX, do as the C programmers do, but when in Realtime,
Forth!

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