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From: Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com>
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> If someone has decided *not* to spend the rest of their life listening
> and preparing for Forth's Great Coming and wants to actually
> *experience* Forth before they get too old to care, then I wouldn't
> dissuade them.

I certainly count Forth as one of the best experiences I've had in my 
love affair with machines !

It's underlying symplicty is what attracts me to it. And I'm finding I 
don't require much other than the core stuff, which I've started to 
build on. I could just ignore the fact that I'm dragging around a pile 
of ANS stuff I implamented, but that dosn't sit well with me, it's just 
nagging at me all the time. Resonltly I've been considering ditching 
the STATE stuff and trying to recode the compiler/interpreter engine to 
not use it. That might have problems I've not yet forseen, but I'd like 
to give it a try.

Chris