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Subject: Category 2,  Topic 4
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Date: 7 Jan 90 02:07:23 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 4
Message 22        Sat Jan 06, 1990
GARY-S                       at 10:46 EST
 
 
 FF>to use Forth under any circumstances.  I think ValDocs did a great deal of
 FF>harm to Forth, and hopefully to Epson as well.    -- Frank

  If Ron Braithwaite is still connected and reading these messages, I would
  like to recommend you post a message similar to the one you and Bill
  posted to BIX a cupla years ago. I will not presume to recreate that
  message, but all who blame ValDocs and Rising Star for anti-Forthism 
  really need an insiders perspective. I first talked to Ron when he was
  associated with Rising Star, and knew there were problems. Not till I
  later read the aforementioned article(s) on BIX did I realize how deep
  those problems ran. I will just say this - Forth was not the root cause
  of ValDocs abyssmal performance, and neither were the dedicated (and
  professional) programmers working on the project. That doesn't leave
  many places to look... but you need a view from within.
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