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Subject: What's WRONG with Forth?
Message-ID: <2781.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 17 May 91 11:36:52 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 2,  Topic 9
Message 101       Fri May 17, 1991
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 01:07 EDT
 
Re: B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]

 > Why are colon and CREATE so sacred?

CREATE is not much but given colon it is a simple matter to recreate every
part of Forth.  Given some very basic knowledge about Forth, you could
recreate the entire development system (people have done it).  I didn't create
the "line", but I can understand why it is there.

Your other points are well taken.  Stay tuned!

 > Hope this helps.

It does!   Thanks!   DaR
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