Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth Programs (was Forth learning curve) Message-ID: <7416@ficc.uu.net> Date: 26 Dec 89 15:20:11 GMT References: <798@mindlink.UUCP> <735@noe.UUCP> <7355@ficc.uu.net> <737@noe.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 In article <737@noe.UUCP> marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: > Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, Peter, but I LIVED in Berkeley in 1979 (and > through 1987) Well, I lived there 1978 through 1981. I'll see you and raise you 400 quatloos. You obviously hung around with the wrong set of hackers. Forth didn't catch on for one simple reason... it's whole design is based on the assumption of rigidly limited memory. We're not in that world any more, except for us embedded control weenies. -- `-_-' 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