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Subject: What should the Standard include?
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Date: 6 May 91 00:39:11 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 30
Message 50        Sun May 05, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 10:09 EDT
 
All I can say is, the Forth community must be a lot smaller than I thought it
was.  (Someone once told me that there were about 150 Forth vendors.)

With the exception of the subroutine-threaded implementation -- and that was a
concession to the STC contingent that I was sure the TC would approve -- any
Forth usage from polyForth could meet these criteria.  Or anything from LMI
Forth.  Or from MPE.  In fact, the big weakness of my proposed criteria is
that they allow all six model systems to come from a single vendor.

Specific examples?  ONLY/ALSO.  TO.  Conditional compilation. FOR...NEXT. 
Probably file systems (although I'm not familiar with industry practice here).
Probably much of floating point (ditto). Almost certainly you could find two
or three strings packages to meet these criteria.

And given the number of vendors on the TC, it should take no more than 12
months and a fraction to meet this requirement for the most fevered products
of the TC's imagination.  Why is no one willing to do this?

The burden of proof is on the positive, in philosophy and in
jurisprudence....but evidently not in standards-making.

Brad Rodriguez        | brad%candice@maccs.uucp      (God willing)
 B.RODRIGUEZ2 on GEnie | brad%candice@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
 "Shoes for industry!" | bradford@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca  (archaic)

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