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From: thomson@udel.EDU (Richard Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ...and a compiler.
Message-ID: <297@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 12:58:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: louie.297
Posted: Thu Jun 25 12:58:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 01:44:37 EDT
References: <3027@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <294@louie.udel.EDU> <3398@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomson@udel.EDU (Richard Thomson)
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Organization: University of Delaware
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Keywords: FORTH, Languages, Amiga, pre-emptive fire extinguisher
Summary: No war intended

In article <3398@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	In the meantime, please don't have another language war.  We have
>enough trouble trying to agree who makes the better Amiga C compiler without
>trying to bring other languages into it.

I wouldn't want to start another language war either, but you know how those
FORTH types are!  They tend to feel slighted because academia at large tends to
remain sceptical.  My only reason for using FORTH and not C is that I have a
hardware limited system and an empty wallet.  If I could afford a meg of fast
ram and a hard disk, I'd be writing C code.  Heck, it's pretty much the amiga
standard.  I haven't seen any program posted here that weren't in C (with the
wonderful exception of Bryce Nesbitt's little assembler tools!).

But with 512K and two floppies, I got tired of waiting for the compiler and I
figured other people might want to consider a language you can DO something
with on a machine that is minimally equipped.  Expansion boxes are ex$pen$ive
for the 1000 and an inexspensive language may be a better solution for some
people.  Remember *both* of those C compilers cost at least TWICE what FORTH
does.
					Humbly yours, Rich Th