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"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> This is an old chestnut.  Forth has been supplying the world with
> 'professional' systems for 40 years and has produced an ANSI Standard.
> The world wasn't interested.  It's time to stop blaming ignorance,
> hobbyists and dissidents for Forth's woes.  Just maybe Forth isn't the
> first and last word in programming and the 'rest of the world' has its
> own destiny.

I dunno.... Replace the word Forth with Lisp throughout that paragraph
and see how it sounds.  All those great things Forth aficionados say
about Forth are really true about Lisp.  Who am I to say they're not
also true about Forth?