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Subject: X3J14 Holding Pattern Here
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Date: 16 Apr 91 02:14:56 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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 Date: 04-13-91 (14:52)              Number: 1877 of 1877 (Echo)
   To: CHRIS WRIGHT                  Refer#: NONE
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: X3J14 HOLDING PATTERN HER     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
 Conf: FORTH (58)                 Read Type: GENERAL (+)

 -> 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

         The sociological truth is that any small in-group, especially
 a "persecuted minority" like the Forth community, is going to have
 particularly nasty squabbles.

         When there is plenty of hay, the horsie eat hay. In the winter
 when fodder is short, they nip at each other's flanks.

         The reasons why Forth is good for your next control project have
 more to do with Charles Moore's appreciation of what he could do with
 limited resources back in 1970 than they have to do with the ANS
 standardization proceedings.

         Nonetheless, we will have an ANS Forth before too long. While I
 appreciate Bob Berkey's concerns regarding the mathematical compromises
 (not very compromising, really!) on MOD, Brother Bob's flame is more of
 a flame-out and tantamount to his withdrawal from any constructive
 participation in the further work on ANS Forth.

         The members of X3J14 are not particularly corrupt or boobish,
 not any more so than an equally representative sampling of the Forth
 community at large, or any other programming community for that matter!

         =jax=

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