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Subject: X3J14 Holding Pattern Here
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Date: 13 May 91 11:57:02 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 12
Message 66        Sun May 12, 1991
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 20:56 EDT
 
Re: B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]

 > (How long after BASIS'n' will it take for ZENForth'n' to become
 > available?

Well, Martin did real good this last time.  I uploaded ZEN15A was uploaded 5
days after BASIS15.  I'd call that pretty remarkable performance.  I don't
know how many others are following Martin's example, but even assuming only a
few people spend the time to implement it, I would hope 4 months is plenty of
time to test them out.  In fact, if you're really concerned about it, how
about working on a test suite now?  That way you would be prepared to beat the
systems up when they do come out.

In fact, I am personally _very_ interested in working up a test suite for ANS
Forth, and am working on a paper on the subject.  Part of the reason for the
paper is to find out how many others would be interested in contributing to
this effort.  I certainly can't do it alone, and I don't think any one vendor
should have to foot the bill for something that will benifit us all.  So, how
many people out there are concerned about the testability of Forth and are
willing to help define a test suite for the coming versions of ANS Forth?

Can we have a show of hands?   DaR
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