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From: gaynor@busboys.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth, Creativity, Snobbishness, and the Future
Message-ID: <Jan.7.08.59.12.1990.1181@busboys.rutgers.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 90 13:59:15 GMT
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dunn@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (John Dunn) writes:

| Forth is the only generally available language I know of that is
| ideally suited to exploratory programming ("creative" was the word I
| had used earler) for the real world.

| But as things stand Forth does indeed seem to have a corner on
| creativity.

| Regarding a standard environment: Why is this desirable for Forth?

| Language strongly affects thinking, even bounds it.

Ridiculous.  [Ag]