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Subject: Linking, Modules, and Overlays
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:11:04 GMT
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 Date: 01-08-90 (16:41)              Number: 1635 (Echo)
   To: GARY-S                        Refer#: 1625
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: ADVANTAGES OF C FOR FORTH     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 That should be obvious.  If you could painlessly use C libraries for 
 forth functions rather than endlessly reinventing the wheel, or perhaps 
 reinventing the Tower of Babel, you could get the same productivity 
 boost that is probably one of the major factors in C's success.

 HS/Forth does have a facility for using C libraries, but to date I don't
 know enough about C to really understand how to make use of it, so I 
 can't say how "convenient" or "painless" it actually is.  However 
 running the demos proves that it does in fact work.
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