Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!world!dcp From: dcp@world.std.com (David C. Petty) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Floating Point Controversy? Message-ID: <1991Apr7.045237.18006@world.std.com> Date: 7 Apr 91 04:52:37 GMT References: <17856@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: dcp@world.std.com (David C. Petty) Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 19 In article <17856@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, ir230@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (john wavrik) writes: `The question that faces the Forth community right now is: do you `really want your language picking up C programmers on street corners! Electrical Engineering is a relatively new profession, but it bears many similarities to the world's oldest profession. It is predominated by a single sex (albeit a ifferent oane); most of the income goes to the management; sucess is measured by how soon one gets out of the profession; and beyond a certain point, age and experience are negatives. -- Jon Lewis, Kaman Sciences Corporation -- David C. Petty | dcp@world.std.com | ...!{uunet,bu.edu}!world!dcp /\ POBox Two | CIS: 73607,1646 | BIX, Delphi, MCIMail: dcp / \ Cambridge, MA | `It must've been some-other-body, / \ 02140-0001 USA | uh uh babe it wasn't me...' - CB /______\