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Re: DSPic FORTH

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: DSPic FORTH
Date 2013-01-14 17:09 -0500
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On 1/14/2013 4:45 PM, Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> On Jan 13, 3:25 pm, rickman<gnu...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Are you really planning to make money selling a Forth for the ARM?
>> Where will you find customers?
>
> The world is full of programmers who have tried Forth (usually
> PolyForth or SwiftForth), dumped it, and switched to C. They are okay
> with C, but they wish they had closures like the desktop-computer
> languages have --- they will use any language that generates code for
> micro-controllers and has closures, of which there are none at this
> time.

Care to clue me in as to why closures are so important?

Are you aware that there are many factors that influence the choice of 
programming language by individuals and that this is often a company 
decision rather than a programmer's decision?

Do you have a business model?

Rick

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DSPic FORTH donseglio@gmail.com - 2013-01-09 09:51 -0800
  Re: DSPic FORTH Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-01-09 11:53 -0800
    Re: DSPic FORTH donseglio@gmail.com - 2013-01-09 12:11 -0800
      Re: DSPic FORTH Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@invalid.com> - 2013-01-09 22:46 +0200
        Re: DSPic FORTH Matthias Koch <matthias.koch@hot.uni-hannover.de> - 2013-01-24 15:57 +0100
          Re: DSPic FORTH ohayo.galaxys@gmail.com - 2013-05-10 14:16 -0700
          Re: DSPic FORTH oh2aun@gmail.com - 2013-05-18 05:21 -0700
  Re: DSPic FORTH stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2013-01-09 20:22 +0000
    Re: DSPic FORTH Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-01-10 09:39 -0800
  Re: DSPic FORTH Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-09 14:09 -0800
    Re: DSPic FORTH donseglio@gmail.com - 2013-01-09 14:53 -0800
      Re: DSPic FORTH Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-09 18:54 -0800
        Re: DSPic FORTH donseglio@gmail.com - 2013-01-09 20:48 -0800
          Re: DSPic FORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-01-10 17:35 -0500
            Re: DSPic FORTH donseglio@gmail.com - 2013-01-10 16:53 -0800
              Re: DSPic FORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-01-13 17:22 -0500
          Re: DSPic FORTH Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-10 20:59 -0800
            Re: DSPic FORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-01-13 17:25 -0500
              Re: DSPic FORTH Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-14 13:45 -0800
                Re: DSPic FORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-01-14 17:09 -0500
                Re: DSPic FORTH Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-14 15:27 -0800
                Re: DSPic FORTH rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-01-15 00:20 -0500
                Re: DSPic FORTH Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2013-01-17 07:39 -0800
                Re: DSPic FORTH "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2013-05-11 11:32 +0000

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