Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Questions about strings Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:37:26 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <87y4ejsd3d.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> References: <2015Oct25.111711@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2015Oct26.122017@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <9sGdnRCwf-vp0anLnZ2dnUU7-VOdnZ2d@supernews.com> <8737wrtuvq.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1a9f5856d25720e42c135b990c70bebb"; logging-data="20553"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+LiR/jVmgYVwy4dPkUgWq4" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/4PHv8eMreFeb7wsubHi+UgtROM= sha1:CVDX9Pn7KIHOji3BJ9BVOMWiBH4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:43025 "Elizabeth D. Rather" writes: > It certainly wouldn't impact revenue, but I have no idea whether Leon > (who has all the old files, discs, mostly unreadable, etc.) could > resurrect it enough to be useful to you. We ceased using it 30 years > ago! Yes, it's quite understandable if exhuming the code is too much hassle to be worthwhile just for curiosity's sake. I don't have any great to desire to actually use it beyond trying it out a little. It's more an interest in seeing how something like that was written. > Its design was somewhat like what (little) I understand of LaTex: in > other words, commands relating to what to do with the text that > followed. That's about what I'd guessed, so I was mostly interested in seeing what the commands looked like, the implementation technique, what using it was like, etc. Was it done with blocks and screens, using a block editor to write the input document? > Ask him. I've never met him and he doesn't post here, but maybe someday. Thanks!