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Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> writes:
>> Lots of Forth systems don't run on top of POSIX,
> Why do you speak about Forth systems only? A lot of PL around use
> POSIX for file I/O, and having something different requires at least
> explanation. 

There aren't that many PL's with a historical tradition of running on
small systems with no file system and no OS.