Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Paul E Bennett Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: FORTH LITE TUTORIAL based on MPE VFX Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:28:54 +0100 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <2d2eba75-5d44-422a-8a3f-751702d8cea6@googlegroups.com> <5be1ebb2-75e3-433a-bb83-542f3763acb1@googlegroups.com> <5b2f20cb-1818-4380-ae6e-93610b1ecfe8@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net uq1zf9GdXhq9EQc4TDjCxQOAbmzNHB/CPdpXrIFdBDV8S4F+RN Cancel-Lock: sha1:7cs4GeoRUBwpGzZ2WtG0r8ZgzPc= User-Agent: KNode/4.11.4 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:31869 Roger Levy wrote: [%X] > Why did ANS Forth fail? Not enough applications? No free compliant > desktop Forths? If it did I was unaware of that. In its new form as Forth2000x it still lives on. It is a very workable basis for allowing cross-compatibility between different base Forths for the most part (I can run most of the same source on VFx, PowerForth and GForth without tweaking) and the robustness certification that I provide to clients makes great use of the fact we have a standard. -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET..... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy............. Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************