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Subject: DR. DOBBS "FORTH" ISSUE?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 03:20:09 GMT
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 Date: 12-19-89 (08:33)              Number: 2692 (Echo)
   To: STEVE PALINCSAR               Refer#: NONE
 From: JACK WOEHR                      Read: NO
 Subj: DR. DOBBS "FORTH" ISSUE?      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 >Jack, if you're referring to the Embedded Systems Dr. Dobbs issue, that
 >had Martin Tracy's article on Zen Forth, while Martin's article was 
 >indeed a pleasure to see, unless I've overlooked something, it was the 
 >*only* reference to forth in the issue other than the logo in the 
 >structured programming column (the one with the broken branch falling 
 >off the tree).  And to me, one article does not a "forth issue" make!

        The issue may not have been a "Forth Issue", but very nice
 things were said about URForth OS/2 in the article on General Protection
 Fault handling, where Bro. Ray's product was held up as a model of
 GPF Handling, in comparision with Smalltalk/V.

                =jax=

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