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Subject: FORTH IN THE MARKETPLACE
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:27:17 GMT
Organization: Latest Link in ForthNet Chain
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 Date: 12-28-89 (19:19)              Number: 1549 (Echo)
   To: GARY-S                        Refer#: 1546
 From: SYSOP (ECFB/SHIFRIN)            Read: NO
 Subj: FORTH IN THE MARKETPLACE      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 > 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.

 Just in case we actually have a two way link-up here, I should
 mention that I have a work application in LMI's PC/Forth+ which
 now takes about 350k (mostly code, not just buffers). It's about
 25-30,000 lines of code.  Needless to say, Forth's compactness
 was not the main reason for its selection (productivity was!).
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