Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: vandys@vsta.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Top 3 implementations? Date: 4 May 2012 22:28:09 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7c0208d6-3748-4d64-a8c4-8061a03771ae@g38g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <64ccf3f0-60fb-4df2-9e51-daab5e6b6d57@p6g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <4fa44f95$0$6903$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> X-Trace: individual.net hKP8fUbAjH9VSA2v4zQVdQUR7ji6DCfXWc5wqFdqMOXRp9Rwpd+JohAwDyFpKllTh+ X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:VcFeqrgRp28qDgZv7vM68NmDHX0= User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.32-41-generic-pae (i686)) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:11929 Hans Bezemer wrote: > We're DEAD. We just don't know it yet. More accurately, Forth is somewhere between the PDP-8 and the PDP-11 in terms of its downward trajectory. It's still out there, and there are even jobs to be had doing it. But not as many as there were 10 years ago, and more than there will be in another 10 years. (None of these comments are directed towards Mr. Moore's work--it's brilliant and I don't feel competent to comment on how it might do in the world.) -- Andy Valencia Home page: http://www.vsta.org/andy/ To contact me: http://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html