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Subject: Category 2,  Topic 11
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Date: 21 Dec 89 03:19:37 GMT
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   To: KARL BROWN                    Refer#: NONE
 From: ZAFAR ESSAK                     Read: NO
 Subj: HELLO                         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Hi Karl, 

 It was good seeing you again 2 weeks ago at the BC-FIG chapter meeting. 
 Conrad and Thorin must be quite grown from when we saw you all last. 
 And how is Eleanor?  A pretty resiliant lady - still living with all 
 those BERTs.  She must be thankful most of them are in pieces and not 
 all talking back.  We'd love to get together with you and will work 
 to make that happen after the Christmas Craze. 

 Dave's demo of BERT at the FIG chapter was fun.  He had combined BERT 
 with F-PC and Dennis Ruffer's UARTS stuff added his own stuff and even 
 figured out how to make BERT say "Welcome to B.C. Fig" and he made it 
 seem so easy.  Now that's an example of USING Forth.  The problem with 
 the "steep learning curve in Forth" is when people want to decipher all 
 the innards of Forth.  And since it's almost all in Forth they try to 
 do that from the beginning.  Whoever heard of learning to drive by 
 taking the car apart first?  And if this analogy seems so far fetched I 
 have yet to hear anyone using BASIC discussing how BASIC works.  And 
 after they had given up on BASIC and moved to assembler describe adding 
 features to the assembler. 

 It's good to see you on the board to remind those of us who like 
 software and shy away from the wire and solder that there is a bridge 
 between the two. 
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