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From: Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:06:13 +0000
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On 2012-11-19 16:03:53 +0000, Chris Hinsley said:

> 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

Anybody who wants to grab what I have so far better do it now !

https://sites.google.com/site/chrishinsley/

Regards

Chris