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From: caw@munnari.oz.au (Chris Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: do I want to be part of this!
Keywords: politics, Forth, and nasty words....
Message-ID: <7286@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 9 Apr 91 12:19:16 GMT
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Now listen....
I'm a medium Forth programmer (post Starting Forth, can't work
out the Zen source code, just defined my first compiler extension -
and therefor have just seen what Forth is all about..)
and then I read this stuff about the  "fraudulent" aspects of the
draft standard committee. So I ask myself.. "What sort of a language
and community is this? Do I want to be part of it? Should I not
use Forth for a SBC project I'm organising? Should I use <Turbo sea>?"

(I ask this despite the terrific help I've received from some of
the vendors - jax in particular)

Where's the moderate view..the middle ground..or are you really just
a bunch of religious zealots, like my friends have been trying to 
tell me. I hope you're not, 'cos I like Forth, and I like some of the
people I've met on this group

chris


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