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Subject: Feedback to the Forth Interest Group
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Date: 4 Mar 91 13:19:14 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 02-28-91 (09:38)              Number: 1368 of 1368 (Echo)
   To: CHARLIE HITSELBERGER          Refer#: 1344
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: ORGANIZATION                  Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 -> Forth appears to be a declining language, being replaced for the most
 -> part by C.  Jack, I see in you signs of that spark that can keep an
 -> enthusiastic Forth following alive.  So in one sense, my suggestion
 -> that a new user group be formed was genuine.

         Oh, I appreciated the suggestion, Charlie. No question about
 it but that Forth and Forth programmers would be better served by
 an organization that took more of an active role in technical and
 human issues advocacy for our community.

         As for Forth being in decline, I don't believe it. Forth
 is used more and more every year in embedded control, the field
 for which Mr. Moore originally designed the language.

                 =jax=

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