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"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> You talk about 'what the Forth community wants'.  If it wanted a
> standard then I'd expect Forth Inc users to be banging on the door
> demanding 200x be implemented.

Is 200x a standard rather than a draft of one?  Is the Forth community
satisfied that it already has a standard (ANS) with 200x being a
refinement, like more recent iterations of the C standard?

The C standard is important and influential, but people mostly follow
C99 even though C11 is a thing.  There's an update in the works but not
that many users are really clamoring for it.