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Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth

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On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 6:47:00 PM UTC-6, HAA wrote:
> Julian Fondren wrote:
> > On Friday, January 6, 2017 at 7:07:33 PM UTC-6, HAA wrote:
> > > Maybe that's exaggerating (or not) but Forth isn't for endlessly planning and
> > > future-proofing, it's getting the job done and out the door.  It doesn't need to
> > > be Forth - any small language with few barriers (standards)
> >
> > Couldn't roll my eyes any harder.
> 
> Which produced the greatest number of successes - Forth of the first two
> decades, or Standard Forth of the latter two?

You can't answer your own question in a persuasive way, and the answer
wouldn't have anything to do with your original parenthesized
wisecrack.  You've got contact-stupidity from Hugh, who believes that
the only purpose of a Forth implementation is the production of cross
compilers. In a community as small as ours, trying to be an edgy
counter-signaling hipster has left you standing next to the lone
drunken idiot.  Gosh, you're so clever -- but if you wrote anything in
Forth, ever, you'd notice that standards weren't stopping you from
doing anything. Cleverness that can be defeated by running through a
tutorial is wasted energy.

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Just saw this - Description of Forth Steve Graham <solitary.wanderer52@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 09:11 -0800
  Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth november.nihal@gmail.com - 2017-01-05 12:52 -0800
  Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-07 12:08 +1100
    Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 18:09 -0800
      Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-08 11:47 +1100
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-01-07 17:59 -0800
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-07 18:23 -0800
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-07 18:51 -1000
          Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-08 17:02 -0800
          Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-10 10:38 +1100
            Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-09 17:35 -0800
              Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-09 18:32 -1000
                Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-01-10 04:17 -0600
                Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-10 13:41 +0000
                Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-01-10 08:05 -0600
            Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-10 13:50 +0000
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-08 08:58 +0000
    Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-06 18:58 -0800
      Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth november.nihal@gmail.com - 2017-01-08 14:30 -0800
        Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-08 21:15 -0800
    Re: Just saw this - Description of Forth november.nihal@gmail.com - 2017-01-08 14:24 -0800

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