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From: dcp@world.std.com (David C. Petty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Simplification
Keywords: ANS Forth
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.042127.7677@world.std.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 04:21:27 GMT
References: <9102261407.AA20302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: dcp@world (David C. Petty)
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <9102261407.AA20302@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>,
wmb%MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV writes:

``I don't want to have to preface all my standard programs with:
``
``: missing  bl word  find  nip  0=  ;
``missing 0<  .if  : 0<  0 <  ;  .then
``missing 0=  .if  : 0=  0 =  ;  .then
``missing 0>  .if  : 0=  0 >  ;  .then
``etc.
``
``It's just too boring.  

And yet you (presumably) don't mind adding ``#include <stdio.h>'' to
(virtually) every C program you write.  I find having to include stuff
to be (mildly) boring, too, but not too much of a burden on my
programming in C.  ANS Forth will (currently) have no _standard_
mechanism for including standard libraries, but it is quite acceptable
(for me) to include a preface to my code that I have ``standardized''
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