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Subject: LANGUAGE OF ANS FORTH
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Date: 5 Jan 90 16:05:03 GMT
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 Date: 12-23-89 (14:21)              Number: 342 (Echo)
   To: IAN GREEN                     Refer#: 341
 From: SYSOP (ECFB/SHIFRIN)            Read: NO
 Subj: LANGUAGE OF ANS FORTH         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 IG>After that what are the bare minimum words that the 'machine' has to 
 IG>know? (execute)

 The point is that the syntax of Forth is trivial; it's the
 semantics of a handful of words which make Forth Forth. I think
 Chuck once proposed a dozen or so words as the minimum necessary,
 perhaps in a file here, but I don't recall for certain.
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