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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> About the problems of the project, it says:
> |If You want to point any fingers. it was because of the editor. The
> |editor was a concept picked up from Forth - it was the typical Forth
> |line editor extended to this glorious What You See Is What You Get.

I found an old clf post mentioning Valdocs while looking for the FD
article.  The mention is brief but I thought the surrounding points were
also interesting.

 Jonah Thomas, comp.lang.forth 2003-07-18
 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.forth/7gWtjMoQXk8/Wr0yBdbZMWsJ  :

 The central thing Forth depends on is KISS.  We've consistently
 rejected complicated solutions when simpler solutions work.  The result
 is fewer co-adaptations, where you can't change one thing because it's
 built into a bunch of other things.  We do have some of that but not
 very many.  Giving up blocks removed a lot of them.  Blocks gave an
 integrated editor, and fast integrated compiling, and a sort of paged
 virtual memory, and something you could easily turn into a somewhat
 inferior database, etc.  It wasn't the best solution for very much but
 it gave an easy adequate solution for a whole lot.  I read that using
 blocks was a fundamental cause of the Valdocs failure so many years
 ago.  They started out with blocks and then ran into limits and instead
 of throwing them out and starting over they tried to design around them
 and ran out of time.  Now we use blocks when the problem demands them
 instead of wherever they look good enough.  It takes longer and we
 probably get better solutions.

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      Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-07 23:42 -0800
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          Re: Really? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-08 17:48 +0000
            Re: Really? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-08 18:43 +0000
              Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-08 15:24 -0800
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  Re: Really? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-02-07 11:01 +0000
    Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-07 03:06 -0800
      Re: Really? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-07 09:35 -0800
      Re: Really? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-07 17:35 +0000
        Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-07 23:24 -0800
          Re: Really? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-09 08:57 +0000
            Re: Really? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-02-09 13:24 +0100
              Re: Really? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-11 15:32 +0000
      Re: Really? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-02-07 20:42 +0000
        Re: Really? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-07 13:58 -1000
          Re: Really? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-07 21:51 -0800
            Re: Really? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-08 01:47 -0500
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                Re: Really? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-08 13:43 +0000
                Re: Really? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-08 15:39 -1000
                Re: Really? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-08 22:39 -0800
                Re: Really? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-09 08:56 +0000
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                Re: Really? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-09 09:30 -1000
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                Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-09 12:01 -0800
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                Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-09 18:19 -0800
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                Re: Really? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-09 19:16 -0800
                Re: Really? stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-02-10 16:29 +0000
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                Re: Really? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-10 16:33 -0800
                Static type checking (was: Really?) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-10 11:07 +0000
                Re: Really? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-02-11 15:16 +0000
                Re: Really? Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-11 10:20 -0600
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                Re: Really? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-02-10 17:31 +0100
                Re: Really? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-08 15:34 -1000
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              Re: Really? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-07 23:46 -0800
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    Re: Really? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-10 10:32 +1100
      Re: Really? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-09 17:22 -0800

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