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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: What's WRONG with Forth?
Message-ID: <2748.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 13 May 91 11:56:39 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 2,  Topic 9
Message 94        Fri May 10, 1991
R.CAVANAUGH [BobC]           at 22:54 MDT
 
I have to get on my soapbox on this one:

1) I feel one of the reasons "C" is so popular now is the advent of
   affordable packages (<$100).  I personally own Turbo C (and C++), LetsC,
and Mix C.  While Turbo is the only one I would use professionally,  it has
allowed a lot of neophytes to enter this world.

2) Limiting a language by high price is what I consider IBM and Microslop
mentality.  That particular idea of "maximize the bucks" will result in
shooting yourself in the foot.  One of the reasons I started looking at forth
was the clear and open invitation BY the availability of PD programs.

3)  I think of forth programmers as creative, knowledgable people dedicated to
solving problems, not tunnel-visioned bean counters. The whole philosophy as I
see it of forth is sharing, getting the job done, providing the "atmosphere"
if you will.  If forth does hit the mainstream (something I hope for), I would
like to think that it retains this attitude.  Learning the tack that HSForth
advertisements are taking gives me pause to think...

-- Bobc
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