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Re: How popular is Forth really, compared to others, any guess?

From Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: How popular is Forth really, compared to others, any guess?
Date 2014-10-24 14:34 +0200
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Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:

> On 10/22/14 11:14 AM, Bernd Paysan wrote:
>> There aren't so many questions and answers about Forth on
>> stackoverflow.com, a typical chicken&egg problem: we Forthers aren't
>> there.
> 
> Most of our customers rely on FORTH, Inc. for support. Would
> stackoverflow.com provide better support, do you think?

No, I'd suppose that Forth Inc.s people would answer the questions there.

It's just that your support is completely invisible to anybody outside, so 
according to the logic "what isn't visible doesn't happen".  This sort of 
stealth marketing we have in the Forth community doesn't work too well ;-).

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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