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From: blk@sytek.UUCP (Brian L. Kahn)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Portable Forth for Unix - (nf)
Message-ID: <348@sytek.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 13:21:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 13:21:59 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 08:19:45 EST
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First of all, a portable anything for Unix should be written in C,
and use unix calls where needed.

Second, i think that forth programmers only need assembler for
increased speed and efficiency, which your system adminstrator
probably doesn't want to have you mucking about with, anyhow.

So i vote for a traditional Forth with a more or less normal
dictionary (using callot() or some such system call) sans assembler.
Might not be too slow, either.  Especially compared to a 6502.

B<