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Re: Memory

From Alex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Memory
Date 2017-01-27 19:53 +0000
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On 1/27/2017 19:27, Cecil Bayona wrote:

>
> Too many want to keep Forth worse than the 1970s as the Standard is so
> full of ambiguities, standards are suppose to clear ambiguities not
> create them, and that is the main issue I see with Forth these days.

There are conflicting here on clf opinions about standards. Some don't 
care much for them, some love them but hate ANS Forth ("we need 
standards, but this standard? Yeuch!") and some think ANS Forth is a 
viable base to work from.

This is a new category. Who are the many who want Forth worse than the 
1970s?


> That will be the final nail on the coffin which is a shame as Forth has
> so much potential specially in the embedded field. In the embedded area
> I tend to think that Forth will stay alive and well, being used as a
> "secret" weapon for the few in the know.

Perhaps that is its metier.

-- 
Alex

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Memory rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-26 17:16 -0500
  Re: Memory Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-01-26 20:48 -0600
    Re: Memory minforth@arcor.de - 2017-01-27 03:39 -0800
      Re: Memory Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-01-27 13:27 -0600
        Re: Memory rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-27 14:50 -0500
        Re: Memory Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-01-27 19:53 +0000
    Re: Memory mhx@iae.nl - 2017-01-28 07:40 -0800
    Re: Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-28 16:01 -0800
      Re: Memory Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-01-28 22:16 -0600
        Re: Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-28 20:31 -0800
          Re: Memory Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-01-29 00:30 -0600
            Re: Memory Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-28 22:39 -0800
              Re: Memory Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-01-29 03:19 -0600

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