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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 27 Feb 91 03:08:28 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-22-91 (13:40)              Number: 1276 of 1301
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: CHARLIE HITSELBERGER            Read: (N/A)
 Subj: JAX ATTACKS                   Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 Jack and Dennis:  It's all very interesting to follow Jack's quixotic
 attacks on FIG's board of directors.  Sometimes it is even amusing to
 read these angle-bracket-quoted messages.  I really enjoy it.

 I am not a member of FIG.  I got my introduction to Forth from Dr.
 Dobb's Journal back issues around 1983.  Since then, I've used it
 professionally once (for two years, MMSForth on a TRS-80 4) and
 amateurishly for 7 years (Blazin' Forth, et al. on a Commie 64).  I have
 an incarnation of Forth on my PC, but I consider owning an MS-DOS
 machine to be a necessary evil.  I also have Forthsim on my VAX at work.
  It seems to me that most forthers are either embedded-controller
 hardware hacker types, or PC forth users.  So what's my point?  I'm
 beginning to wonder myself.

 Jack, if you don't like what FIG is doing, and you aren't offering
 anything but flames, perhaps you could do better to start your own group
 and compete head-to-head against the evil empire of FIG.  For a name, I
 would like to suggest "Belligerent Forth Dudes" (or B.F.D. as the
 acronym).  Do a newsletter, an annual convention, define your own
 language standard...  I know *I* would join!

 Facetiously yours,
 Charlie Hitselberger

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