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From: wmb@MITCH.ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: Hooray for dissention
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Date: 19 Mar 91 04:09:56 GMT
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> > Bill <bouma@cs.purdue.edu>
>
> If you dislike FORTH so much, why do you spend so much time in this
> newsgroup?

Non sequitur.  An honest appraisal of Forth does not imply that one
dislikes it.  I am happy to hear Bill's criticisms of Forth.  For the
most part, I think they are accurate.

Given an accurate view of reality, progress can be made.  I think that
the Forth community has suffered from a bad case of wishful thinking
for most of its history.  Wishing that the world would stand still, or
that the world is simpler than it is, won't make it so.

I like Forth well enough that I have chosen to make my living doing it,
and there are dozens of things about Forth that I think are deficient.

Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM