Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Declining Forth popularity. Keywords: Forth, changes, extensions, marketing Message-ID: <7318@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Dec 89 18:17:32 GMT References: <1989Dec14.013516.24694@tree.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <1989Dec14.013516.24694@tree.uucp> stever@tree.uucp (Steve Rudek) writes: > What happened? WHY did it happen? What (if anything) can be done to reverse > or at least halt the declining popularity of Forth? One of FORTH's biggest advantages was that it allowed a complete development environment with very limited resources. We had at one time a multi-user development system with only 16K of RAM! But it cost as much as a loaded 386-based UNIX box does now. And that's the point. Resources are now cheap enough that FORTH's greatest advantage is vanishing. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com