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From: jad@lanl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What's so good about FORTH?
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Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 00:05:57 EDT
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Once upon a time I was using a machine with limited resources - it
did, however, have a floppy drive and 6k of ROM space.  Into that
space, using a variant of FORTH I was able to put a programming
environment and a disk-based text editor.

Not much, perhaps, but enough to get the Christmas letters out on time
one year, with variations to each recipient.  This justified (for that
year, at least) the expenditures that went into that system.

What impresses me more are the FORTH-based (or FORTH-like) systems
that implement things undreamed-of only a few years ago, things that
you can hold in your hand and run from batteries . . .