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From: ian@puivax.UUCP (Ian Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 14:38:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 14:38:56 1987
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Summary: We use forth as a development & debug tool.

I use a portable subset of forth (written in C) as a development
and debug tool. It is useful to support prototype h/w developers
(and then the words written by the developers are always more
accurate than the written documentation ... ); it is useful as
an extensible s/w debug monitor, good for snooping around data
structures of large programs and making quick patches.

Personally I use forth for quick hacks, prototypes, etc. For more
team-oriented tasks I need a more disciplined toolset (this is
probably a confession of weakness).

I have been using this combination approach for 5-6 years now
and it works fine. I have versions for pc/vax/68k/etc/etc....

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