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Subject: Conditionals !
Message-ID: <2506.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 18 Mar 91 03:27:36 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 03-13-91 (08:13)              Number: 1502 of 1502 (Echo)
   To: GARY SMITH                    Refer#: 1487
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: CONDITIONALS !                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 -> (David C. Petty) Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
 -> In article <2458.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>, Brad Rodriguez
 -> writes:
 -> ``Is it the TC's policy to put things in at the last minute so as to
 -> ``avoid discussion of their removal?
 -> Brad, how could you even _suggest_ such a thing.  We both know that
 -> could _never_ be in the back of the minds of _any_ TC members, don't
 -> we?  (If I knew what the usenet smiley-face symbol for oozing sarcasm
 -> was -- and if I used usenet simley-face symbols -- I would use it
 -> here.)

         David, that is ridiculous. Nothing except the arrival of
 our nightly pizza order stifles discussion @ X3J14.

         The last meeing was dedicated to TAKING THINGS OUT of the
 Standard as much as possible.

         EVERY member of the TC wants things REMOVED ... it's just
 that, like the user community at large, we all disagree on what
 is to go!

         By and large, as an implementor of the BASIS, I believe that
 we have done a good job at tailoring a Forth that will be PORTABLE
 and AS COMPATIBLE AS POSSIBLE in syntax with what went before. We
 coulda done better, but we coulda done a whole lot worse!

                 =jax=

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