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Subject: Category 2,  Topic 11
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:27:13 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 11
Message 29        Fri Dec 22, 1989
R.BERKEY [Robert]            at 05:42 PST

  To: Jax Woehr

   >>The VENDORS have made almost zero contribution to the evolution
   >>of language standards but appear to have been dragged every step
   >>of the way.

 JAX>        Not true...

Then I don't know what you mean by standards.  I'd say only Forth, Inc. of the
group you mention have been contributors to the evolution of standards.  They
sponsored the 1978 and 1979 Catalina FST meetings, and have always been
regular contributors of proposals.

Yet, in terms of actually offering standard implementations, "dragged" seems
quite to the point.  Before the 1979 meeting they reportedly put their name on
a piece of paper that said that they would offer 1979 standard implementations
coequal to other offerings...  An important exception: Starting Forth Editions
1 and 2, which document respectively Forth-79 and Forth-83 (and the
differences between those and polyForth).


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