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From: Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:03:53 +0000
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Subject: why bother with standards ?
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I was mulling over my Forth hobby and I'm kinda coming to the 
conclusion that I'm going to ditch most of the ANS words I've 
implamented (educational though it may have been) and go off on my own 
! I think I can see what Chuck is getting at when he said he didn't 
agree with there being a standard !

My own thoughts are that the concept of Forth, as a way of programming 
a machine at a low level, are the best thing about Forth. And I feel 
constrained by the standard. So I'm going to strip things down to only 
what I require and then go off and implament my project useing only 
what I need.

I've not come to this desition lightly ! Lot's of questioning as to 
what I want from Forth. And I'm sorry but it's not the 'standard' or 
'compatability'. It's a mechanisum to enable me to be independant of 
'other peoples' compilers and langauges, I don't really care if other 
peoples code can run on my system, so long as my code does then I'm 
happy.

Chris