Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!eurtrx!euraiv1!henk From: henk@cs.eur.nl (Henk Langeveld) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth window system interface Message-ID: <1990Jan5.113915.18626@cs.eur.nl> Date: 5 Jan 90 11:39:15 GMT References: <8912291429.AA16742@jade.berkeley.edu> <1990Jan4.024907.29864@tree.uucp> Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica) Lines: 17 stever@tree.uucp (Steve Rudek) writes: >I've already presented my thoughts on this in a previous posting so I'll >make this real brief. Curses is better than nothing. Much better. With >curses support people could begin writing "silly" Forth applications along >the lines of nethack, emacs, larn, rn. If we had 4 Forth applications >for Unix which were even half as good as those four we'd witness a heck >of a lot of fresh interest in Forth in this newsgroup. What to think of 'vi', with forth as built-in extension language, as in Emacs ? Or am I just dreaming ? -- Henk Langeveld, Unix SysAdmin | domain: Department of Computer Science | phone: +31 10 4081346 Erasmus University Rotterdam | also: langeveld@hroeur5.bitnet Room H5-05, P.O.Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.