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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
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Subject: Re: Extensibility (Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?
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Date: Tue, 1-Jul-86 15:39:45 EDT
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Perhaps this discussion is bothering some people, but I have another
question about forth for the gurus on the subject -- the major
advantage of C (as I see it) over Fortran, etc is the possibility of
defining structures and abstract types.  Does forth have anything
comparable, or are there any forth paradigms that make this easy?  Also,
what sort of position does forth take in the spectrum with functional
programming on one end and object-oriented programming on the other?
It seems to me that (like C) forth doesn't really try to deal with this
problem...

	Wayne