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From: billk@crash.CTS.COM (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ANSI Forth
Message-ID: <1656@crash.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 01:00:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: crash.1656
Posted: Fri Sep  4 01:00:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:24:17 EDT
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Reply-To: billk@crash.CTS.COM (Bill Kelly)
Organization: WarpSpeed Software
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Keywords: Forth, ANSI Standard
Summary: Yes, there will be an ANSI Forth.

>Is there any possibility of an ANSII [SIC] Forth?

Yes indeed.  Their first meeting was held about a month ago.  Most all of the
major Forth vendors were in attendance.  

From what I have heard (I was not at the meeting) there are going to be no
major (if any) changes made to the Forth 83 Standard.  Instead, the group
will be working on standardizing extensions to the Forth language.  

I believe the next meeting will be held around the beginning of October, 1987.

BTW, much to many people's surprise, Charles H. Moore is attending the 
meetings.  

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If anyone has any specific questions about the ANSI Forth Standards meetings,
eMail them to me and I'll answer them for you. (By referring them to the
Chairman of the ANSI Forth Standard Technical Sub-Group.  (or something
like that :-) )


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Bill Kelly,     {hplabs!hp-sdd, ihnp4, sdcsvax}!crash!billk
DevWare, Inc.
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