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Subject: Re: "Hello world" using Hughs novice package
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Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, this looks nice. Again, I suppose they have a customer for each
> project, and Forth is used 'because they can' rather 'because it is
> the best solution, measured independently'. What exactly uniqie Forth
> feature was used as a winning technology?

I expect they use Forth because they like it and are used to it.

There's also a saying that "Forth is an amplifier", but even if the
reality is that "Forth is a high-pass filter", you have to be pretty
good to get anything done in Forth at all.  So a group of Forth
programmers is likely to simply be more skilful than a group of C
programmers, and therefore more able to get projects done, independently
of (or in spite of) the language that they use.