Re: Decoding Roman numerals

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Date	2015-04-24 13:21 -0700
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Subject	Re: Decoding Roman numerals
From	hughaguilar96@gmail.com

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On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 5:13:25 PM UTC-7, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Hans Bezemer wrote:
> 
> > hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
> >> The other Forth example used DOES> in interpretive mode, which is not
> >> ANS-Forth. I don't know of any Forth that does allow this.
> > Like gForth?
> 
> Well, you know a Forth that does this.  Hugh is entitled to be an idiot, and 
> he always brags about his lack of knowledge, as if not knowing something was 
> an achievement ;-).  Something like the Alzheimer way to enlightenment or 
> so.

Why am I an idiot because I don't know about the non-standard quirks of gForth? Why are the readers of RosettaCode expected to know about the non-standard quirks of gForth? Why are they expected to know that the Forth code shown is gForth rather than ANS-Forth, when there is no comment indicating which Forth it was written in?

I think that you are over-stating the importance of gForth --- gForth is useless because it is written in C and hence is abysmally slow --- gForth is not important; it has never been used for writing commercial software and it never will be.

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Decoding Roman numerals "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-23 20:20 +0000
  Re: Decoding Roman numerals foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-03-25 20:01 -0700
    Re: Decoding Roman numerals hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-29 14:21 -0700
      Re: Decoding Roman numerals foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-03-30 21:20 -0700
        Re: Decoding Roman numerals hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-30 22:00 -0700
          Re: Decoding Roman numerals anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-03-31 07:05 +0000
            Re: Decoding Roman numerals hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-03-31 16:29 -0700
              Re: Decoding Roman numerals Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-04-01 11:43 +0200
              Re: Decoding Roman numerals anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-01 10:04 +0000
                Re: Decoding Roman numerals hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-01 19:27 -0700
                Re: Decoding Roman numerals "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-02 11:39 +0100
          Re: Decoding Roman numerals foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2015-03-31 06:43 -0700
            Re: Decoding Roman numerals Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2015-04-02 12:56 +0200
      Re: Decoding Roman numerals Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2015-04-17 09:41 +0200
        Re: Decoding Roman numerals "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2015-04-17 11:05 +0100
        Re: Decoding Roman numerals hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-17 09:53 -0700
          Re: Decoding Roman numerals Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2015-04-18 12:48 +0200
        Re: Decoding Roman numerals Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-04-22 02:13 +0200
          Re: Decoding Roman numerals hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-24 13:21 -0700

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