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Subject: Linking, Modules, and Overlays
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:11:08 GMT
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Category 3,  Topic 11
Message 42        Tue Jan 09, 1990
GARY-S                       at 07:55 EST
 
 
   To: STEVE PALINCSAR 
 Subj: ADVANTAGES OF C FOR FORTH

 sp>That should be obvious.  If you could painlessly use C libraries for 
 sp>forth functions rather than endlessly reinventing the wheel, or perhaps 
    sp>.......   

 sp>HS/Forth does have a facility for using C libraries, but to date I don't
 sp>know enough about C to really understand how to make use of it, so I 

  Brings to mind an interesting code maze - say, we bring up HS Forth's C
  facility and port Mitch Bradley's cforth83 or Mikael Patel's TILE, then
  using cmforth we write c handlers...
    ad infiniti, ad nauseam - - - -
      ^ so much for my (lack of) grasp of Latin. :-(
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