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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 15:29:18 EDT
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Keywords: FORTH, threaded-code

Maybe I'm not seeing the point about "threaded" languages -- you don't see
C programmers claiming that the major advantage of C is that you can use
function calls to build up higher-level routines out of lower ones...  Or is
it just that since forth is the first language many micro users use after
basic and asm, functions (or "words") seem like a really big thing...

	Wayne