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From: ugbowen@sunybcs.UUCP (Devon Bowen)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth standards
Message-ID: <2963@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 22:59:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 22:59:33 1986
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Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: documentation standards
Summary: better understanding

> There are so many competently implemented versions of Forth on the market
> at such low cost that it is hard to understand why someone inexperienced
> with the language would want to write an implementation from scratch!

I've found that the best way to learn something is by doing it. I feel
if I were to write Forth, I would get a deeper understanding of the
operations of the langauge (which is my goal as a Computer Science
student). It also allows me to easily make any improvements or fix any
bugs, because I have and understand the source code.

Thanks for the standards info. It's appreciated.

                                 Devon E Bowen
                                 University of Buffalo