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Subject: Category 2,  Topic 11
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Date: 5 Jan 90 01:27:22 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 11
Message 43        Sat Dec 30, 1989
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 15:46 CST

 Steve Rudek writes

> Surely you know the difference between absolute numbers and market > share?
What you're saying here and in a previous message is that > Forth is doing
very well now that it has admitted defeat as a > general language and
RETREATED to the niche it came from -- > instrument control.  I sure wouldn't
count that as

  First, I reckon Forth is quite different from a country that has a central
government that can admit defeat.  As an (associated, communicative,
goodwilled) anarchy every single Forth programmer would have to be defeated
individually.  No ONE speaks for us all, not even fig.

  Now, let's take up market share.  I had the pleasure of hearing a Radio
Shack executive talk at a breakfast in Fort Worth in 1983 or 1984.  He said
they don't want market share; they want profitability. I remember those words
to this day.  At the time he was very happy to let TI & Commodore have the
market share (I understand they were losing money) while Radio Shack just had
profit.

  -- Frank
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