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Subject: Forth in the Marketplace
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Date: 22 May 91 02:36:50 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 11
Message 107       Mon May 20, 1991
R.CAVANAUGH [BobC]           at 21:32 MDT
 
Please forward to M. Bradley:

The point I was trying to make, and may have obscured due to fat- fingering,
it that I _definitely_ consider Turbo C Professional package to be a fully
functional system for developing code on the IBM PC et. al. type of machines. 
Given that this piece of software is a complete development tool, its cost is
roughly 10% that of some of the other packages (DaR: pF, etc)that were
discussed.  Without any thought of taking bread from anybody's mouth, it seems
to me that Forth, Inc, LMI, and the other development houses could offer a
less expensive though polished alternative to their main packages. This would
hopefully have the effect of getting more people interested in looking at
forth, without the risk of a significant investment to start out.  I am using
F-PC for a project at work because (while I purchased all the manuals from
Offette)I could afford to buy it myself, whereas it would have _never_ been
approved for capital purchase.  Since I have introduced it into my engineering
group, I have succeeded in interesting some of my collegues into looking at
forth, and the end result may be that our house could become a customer of a
full-up system.  I learned "C" on a development package that cost less than
$100.00, which at that time (1985) was the only one another engineer could
convince the boss to spring for, as assembly was the primarily language used.
We now have Turbo C++, Datalight, and a multi-kilobuck 68000 cross development
system, because "C" has been proven in several of our products.  I would like
to see Forth follow that same path.

-- BobC.
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