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Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> writes:
>> And: "I think an ANSI standard is relevant now, so that you can have a 
>> program written on one personal computer and run it on another... 
> So he suppose peoples will exchange source texts only?

I think that is the idea, yes.  Forth is traditionally only even saved
on disk as source, even on old slow blocks systems, since the compiler /
outer interpreter is so fast.

Also when talking about portable code (you can run this C program on x86
or Arm) that refers to source text.