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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
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Subject: Re: FORTH, the heat is on
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 03:03:05 EST
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In article <174@sivax.UUCP>, jim@sivax.UUCP (Jim Boman) writes:
>> 
>>  At this point the debate seems to be getting nasty. FORTH is certainly
>>  interesting (whether it's "failed" or not) and FIG will GIVE away an
>> implementation. Whether it's worth using is a matter of taste...
> 
> 	Look at it this way....FORTH is one of the top FIVE programming
> 	languages (so I've heard).
> 					Bauman, sivax

       Yes, but BASIC is number one. So much for numerical superiority...  

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