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From: BARTHO@CGEUGE54.BITNET (PAUL BARTHOLDI)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: RE: astronomy
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Date: 20 Dec 89 08:12:00 GMT
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> Hi! Could somebody tell me how many observatory in the world still use
> the forth language to control the telescope? Thanks in advance!!!

We do, and intend to continue so, and not only for telescope control but for
a lot of different things, including office automation etc.  Of course we
do not use forth for everything, fortran, c, modula2 are our main languages.
But what is clear is that most of what we have written using forth would
probably never been to such sofistication with any other language.
We use forth on hp1000 (the first version we got in 1975), intel 8085,
vax 780/vms, sun 3/60/unix4.2, atari 1040ST (forthmacs), ibm&clones PC etc

                     Happy Christmas !             Paul Bartholdi