Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!apple!well!jax
From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: type checking
Summary: The cow whinnies while the horse moos
Keywords: controllers, sbc's, embedded systems, Ferrante & Teicher
Message-ID: <7071@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 07:08:39 GMT
References: <8808121826.AA23206@jade.berkeley.edu> <1575@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <544@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <1423@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1423@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer#) writes:
>
>Sorry, but I think most computer scientists will agree that while Forth provides
>a very nice programming environment, it is not a particularly good programming 
>language.
>-- 

	Well, some people who *call* themselves computer scientists talk
	trash like that ... but rarely someone from the *control industry*
	which your mail addr seems to peg you as, friend!

	Do you mean to tell me that in 1988 you are doing control applications
	and are not using Forth?


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