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From: HALDANE@UFPINE.BITNET ("that _special_ Haldane magic...")
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: FIFTH?
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Date: 13 Apr 89 17:49:00 GMT
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I have just recently joined this news group, and I am not familiar with the
debate on blocks vs. text files as storage, so I will refrain from comments
there.

I do have another question:  Is there an inplementation of a FORTH superset
or similar TIL that has object-orientation and operator overloading?  The
proliferation of addition operators only serves to confuse some programmers
(_I_ can deal with it, but some of my freinds can't).  In theory, a new
language, FIFTH, could be the result, sortof like making a true C++ compiler
rather than simply a pre-preprocessor.  I see a bit of value to having just
a + operator instead of +, D+, M+, Q+, $+, etc. (if I missed one, let me know).

Thanks in advance,
        Bob Slaughter
BITNET:    Haldane@UFPine
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