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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Extensibility (Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?
Message-ID: <788@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 14:04:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  3 14:04:23 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jul-86 07:31:24 EDT
References: <201@pyuxv.UUCP> <3700003@uiucdcsp> <132@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> <474@astroatc.UUCP>
Organization: CAD Group, U.C. Berkeley
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Keywords: FORTH, threaded-code

In article <474@astroatc.UUCP>, philm@astroatc.UUCP (Phil Mason) writes:
> 
> In C and other compiled languages, the goal of writing an application is NOT
> to write routines that act as building block tools, but to get the application
> out the door as fast as possible. ... Come on, do you write a new library
> every time you make an new application that includes helpful tools for writing
> applications? NO. Of course not.

I do, whenever possible. Perhaps when there is more pressure to get a product
out the door than there is in a university environment, this sort of thing
becomes less practical.  But I find it nice to not have to re-write large
pieces of code every time I need them...

	Wayne