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Forth libraries

From Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Forth libraries
Organization nocrew
References (1 earlier) <n2rql8$52b$1@speranza.aioe.org> <n2t624$h03$1@dont-email.me> <uKSdnRGJXcpDz8_LnZ2dnUU7-UWdnZ2d@supernews.com> <2015Nov23.125007@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <fsmdnfPvkZ6gCs7LnZ2dnUU7-Yf46u6z@supernews.com>
Date 2015-11-24 08:55 +0100
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Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> Anton Ertl wrote:
>> "Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
>>> Bernd Paysan wrote:
>>>> There has been a at least 20 year long complaint about the lack of
>>>> Forth libraries
>>>
>>> It's more like 40 years. I do not think the problem is with
>>> "ambiguity," it's because a lot of people would rather write "yet
>>> another Forth"
>>
>> Now why is that?
>
> All I know is what they say when they come here asking questions. They
> don't come saying, "Hey, I just posted my implementation for [xxx],
> which I think is Standard, please try it out and tell me what you
> think!". Nor do they say, "I tried to write a library for [xxx] but it
> was too hard, so I'm going to write my own Forth."
>
> No, they come and say, "Hey, I'm going to try to write a Forth because
> I think it's cool and would be a fun project."

I think that's true.  I'm one of those myself.

There are about 400 repositories at GitHub which have a sustantial
amount of Forth code.  Out of those, only 10% are libraries and tools:

https://github.com/orgs/ForthHub/teams/libraries/repositories

(And there are a zillion toy Forths written in other languages.)

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RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2015-11-21 17:59 -0500
  Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-22 18:25 +1100
    Re: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-11-22 06:20 -0800
      Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-23 10:58 +1100
        Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-23 02:57 +0100
          Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-24 13:16 +1100
            Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-23 18:49 -0800
              Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-25 11:51 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-24 17:26 -0800
            Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-25 02:43 +0100
              Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-26 12:16 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-25 17:47 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-26 15:47 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-25 23:07 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-26 07:27 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-26 09:19 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-28 04:26 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-28 11:31 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-29 20:23 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-29 20:39 +0100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-12-05 17:48 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 23:58 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft mhx@iae.nl - 2015-12-05 02:19 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-12-05 11:25 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F first draft Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-12-05 13:11 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft mhx@iae.nl - 2015-12-05 05:27 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-12-05 15:33 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft mhx@iae.nl - 2015-12-07 10:10 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-12-09 16:58 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-12-06 10:23 -0800
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-12-06 21:37 +0100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-12-05 19:08 +0100
                Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-30 08:33 +0000
                Re: D>F and S>F first draft "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-25 21:43 -1000
                Re: D>F and S>F first draft "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2015-11-28 19:28 +1100
                Re: D>F and S>F first draft Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-26 11:37 +0000
    Re: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-22 15:10 +0000
    Re: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-22 20:48 +0100
      Re: D>F and S>F first draft "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-22 13:42 -1000
        Re: D>F and S>F first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-23 11:50 +0000
          Re: D>F and S>F first draft "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-11-23 12:46 -1000
            Forth libraries Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-24 08:55 +0100
  Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-11-22 06:33 -0800
    Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-22 16:00 +0000
      Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-11-22 08:53 -0800
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-11-22 09:11 -0800
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-22 18:24 +0000
      Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-22 09:07 -0800
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2015-11-22 18:10 +0000
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-22 18:26 +0000
          Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 13:58 -0500
            Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-23 12:34 +0000
              Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-23 16:39 +0000
              Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-24 03:00 +0100
            Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2015-11-23 13:48 +0100
              Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft mhx@iae.nl - 2015-11-23 05:19 -0800
                Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft mhx@iae.nl - 2015-11-23 16:09 -0800
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2015-11-22 20:42 +0100
    Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2015-11-22 16:43 -0500
      Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-11-22 18:40 -0800
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2015-11-22 18:51 -0800
        Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft C G Montgomery <cgm@physics.utoledo.edu> - 2015-11-25 15:47 -0500
  Re: RfD: D>F and S>F  first draft anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-11-22 14:29 +0000
  Re: RfD: D>F and S>F first draft "David N. Williams" <williams@umich.edu> - 2015-11-22 10:41 -0600

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