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From: mef@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Fraeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Why don't people use Forth (was Re: FIG Membership cost)
Summary: Forth Dimensions has real benefits
Message-ID: <4488@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 04:19:44 GMT
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Reply-To: mef@aplcen (Marty Fraeman)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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In article <6640@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
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>I've always used JFAR to show off the Forth language, never Forth Dimensions.
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At first I too was very impressed with JFAR.  But then it seemed to sort of
disappear for a quite a while just as a colleague had submitted a pair of 
(really neat IMHO-) articles.  They just fell into a black hole for over a
year and one of them never did rematerialize.  I hope these problems
are over now because the community desparately need a high quality refereed
journal.

In contrast I've seen articles sent in and published in Forth
Dimensions in a mere matter of months.  If you've got something you
want to get out to your fellow Forther's right now, Forth Dimensions
seems to have (by far) the widest distribution and quickest
turnaround.


	Marty Fraeman

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