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Re: Top 3 implementations?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Top 3 implementations?
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Date 2012-05-15 23:58 -0700
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Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> writes:
> To a company $500 for an essential tool is peanuts. Comment to the
> contrary from a person living at the borderline of an economic
> system can only be laughed away.

Most companies will not accept anything as an essential tool until
they've first gotten comfortable doing non-essential things with it.
That's the way languages like Ruby, Python, etc. found their way into
companies, as convenient replacements for throwaway shell scripts, etc.
Once the comfort level built up, they started being used for more
critical purpsoes.

But, for non-essential purposes, getting management to sign off on $500
expenditures isn't necessarily easy.  So there's a bit of cyclic
dependency going on.  SwiftForth's evaluation version probably helps,
but not as much as building up a bunch of experience and deployments in
a company before doing anything important.

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Top 3 implementations? Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com> - 2012-04-27 08:46 -0700
  Re: Top 3 implementations? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-27 11:02 -0700
    Re: Top 3 implementations? quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 11:10 -0700
  Re: Top 3 implementations? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-03 02:15 -0700
  Re: Top 3 implementations? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-03 02:15 -0700
    Re: Top 3 implementations? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-05-03 18:45 +0200
      Re: Top 3 implementations? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-05-03 08:01 -1000
        Re: Top 3 implementations? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 11:15 -0700
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            Re: Top 3 implementations? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-05-08 13:41 -0700
              Re: Top 3 implementations? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-05-08 11:07 -1000
                Re: Top 3 implementations? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-05-08 14:26 -0700
                Re: Top 3 implementations? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-05-08 12:07 -1000
                Re: Top 3 implementations? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-05-09 02:45 -0500
                Re: Top 3 implementations? "Harry Vaderchi" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2012-05-09 09:15 +0100
          Re: Top 3 implementations? Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com> - 2012-05-07 08:20 -0700
        Re: Top 3 implementations? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-10 04:50 -0700
          Re: Top 3 implementations? Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-05-15 10:45 +0000
            Re: Top 3 implementations? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-05-15 23:58 -0700
              Re: Top 3 implementations? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-19 20:36 -0700
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                Re: Top 3 implementations? "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2012-05-21 00:55 +0200
                Re: Top 3 implementations? Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-20 22:26 -0700
                Re: Top 3 implementations? hwfwguy@gmail.com - 2012-05-22 10:20 -0700
      Re: Top 3 implementations? quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 11:08 -0700

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