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Subject: Deviations
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Date: 27 May 91 18:55:40 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 10,  Topic 11
Message 6         Sat May 25, 1991
B.RODRIGUEZ2 [Brad]          at 13:24 EDT
 
Mitch Bradley, speaking of cursor tracking in ANS Forth:
 > I doubt that the value of the feature is worth the cost of the
 > delay.

Ah, if only this same cost-benefit analysis had been applied to so many other
parts of ANS Forth!

- Brad
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