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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: type checking, checkbook balance, sold a biggie, etc.
Summary: woof, rowrbazzle
Keywords: forth,forth,forth,forth,forth,JForth
Message-ID: <7127@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 07:48:04 GMT
References: <8808121826.AA23206@jade.berkeley.edu> <1575@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <7071@well.UUCP> <1457@ficc.uu.net> <504@smegma.UUCP>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <504@smegma.UUCP> mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes:
>In article <1457@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer#) writes:
>>Neither does the Forth language nor any Forth environment to my knowledge
>>adequately support the development of millions of lines of code by hundreds 
>>of programmers, which is the scale of the activities at this mail address.
>
>One of my clients has a data acquisition package for the IBM PC written in
>Forth.  14 megabytes of source, or approximately 100,000 lines of Forth code.
>The project has been running for six years.  The code is VERY maintainable,
>due to the self-discipline of the programmers involved.  The project has been
>worked on by about a dozen different people over six years, some who were short-
>term, and others who have been there the whole time.

	Good for you, marc!

	Big Forth projects? $1/4 mill ~ in JForth starting up monday.

	Not big, just medium.

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