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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth NON Standards Team
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 22:56:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 22:56:07 1985
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Amen.  A thing not mentioned there was an earlier, I believe, less official
attempt at standardization in 1977.  I started programming in Forth around
1976.  I had just finished getting all of my software converted to the 1977
style Forth when the 1979 standards came along.  I had just finished converting
to the 1979 standards when the 1983 standards came along.  I haven't even
had the stomach to try to convert to the 1983 standards.  I look forward to
1987 with dread.  These constant incompatible changes in the basic structure
of the language play havoc with any attempt to maintain any large base of
existing software written in that language.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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