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From: ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Non-Forth systems/languages.
Message-ID: <501.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 90 23:42:04 GMT
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 Date: 02-17-90 (10:12)              Number: 2916 (Echo)
   To: L.ZETTEL                      Refer#: 2910
 From: STEVE PALINCSAR                 Read: NO
 Subj: NON-FORTH SYSTEMS/LANGUAG     Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Other splendid low-cost commercial "conventional language" compilers 
 include Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, MS Quick C, and MIX Power C.  There's 
 definitely no shortage of low cost programming tools out there for the 
 PC world.  (Far as I know, that is emphatically _not_ true for the Mac 
 world, however.)

 Commercial forth systems obviously cannot compete with Borland, 
 Microsoft or MIX on the basis of price.  OTOH, the public domain forth 
 systems have a lot going for them (except support, of course!) and they 
 don't have any real counterparts in the worlds of C, Basic or Pascal, do
 they?

 But any of us would immediately agree that price is not why you want to 
 use forth!
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