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Re: Forth in oblivion

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:52:46 -0500, <visualforth@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:15:04 AM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 03:06:00 -0500, <visualforth.com> wrote:

>> > When Forth is in oblivion, then it is time to reinvent Forth !
>>
>> Why?
>
> It is time to reinvent Forth because Forth isn't present at any  
> important new movement: [examples]

Basically, you've declared that Forth should be used for things
simply because it isn't currently ...

I'm left to wonder from where exactly does this positively pompous
position on Forth come from?

So, I have no other choice but to question the rationale.

Should we resurrect other extinct things too, say the Rocky Mountain
locust?

American farmers weren't able to grow crops in the west while it
existed.  America wouldn't have become the "bread basket" of the
world if it existed.  All other food growing regions of the world
must deal with locusts.  I.e., some things make humanity better
simply by being extinct.

I can think of many reasons as to why Forth shouldn't be resurrected,
modified, or reinvented, i.e., allowed to die and become extinct.

The most important of which is there is no programmer demand for Forth.

The second important of which is that other languages are doing the
jobs needed by those new and exciting projects, i.e., no need.

There is no demand or need for a warmed over, patched up, enhanced,
Forth suitable for such "new" jobs that you mentioned either.  It
seems that most people would rather start from scratch with a new
programming languages in order to put their hated memories of other
languages perceived as being flawed to rest.

Having "dead" languages, like Forth, Pascal, Modula, Fortran, COBOL,
Lisp, etc., among the mix of choices for programming languages only
serves to confuse people, delay the inevitable, and waste resources.
You should notice that I didn't list other old languages like C or
BASIC or PL/I etc as being among the "dead."

So, why should a language - apparently decided to be not suitable
for those projects by the projects' authors - be touted for them?


Rod Pemberton

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Forth in oblivion akk <akk@nospam.org> - 2014-02-16 19:21 +0100
  Re: Forth in oblivion Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-16 12:03 -0800
    Re: Forth in oblivion hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-16 15:47 -0800
    Re: Forth in oblivion Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-05 15:25 +0000
  Re: Forth in oblivion visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-02-18 00:06 -0800
    Re: Forth in oblivion "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 06:15 -0500
      Re: Forth in oblivion visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-02-18 09:52 -0800
        Re: Forth in oblivion "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 18:16 -0500
          Re: Forth in oblivion visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2014-02-18 19:05 -0800
            Re: Forth in oblivion AKK <akk@nospam.org> - 2014-02-19 09:47 +0100
            Re: Forth in oblivion Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-19 04:08 -0600
            Re: Forth in oblivion "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-19 05:39 -0500
          Re: Forth in oblivion Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-19 04:09 -0600
            Re: Forth in oblivion "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-19 06:18 -0500
              Re: Forth in oblivion Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-02-19 03:35 -0800
              Re: Forth in oblivion Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-20 10:06 -0600
          Re: Forth in oblivion "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <notagoodone@invalid.org.invalid> - 2014-02-23 21:17 +0000
            Re: Forth in oblivion "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-24 01:18 -0500
              Re: Forth in oblivion "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-23 21:44 -1000
                Re: Forth in oblivion hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-02 04:36 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-03 14:30 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-03 15:34 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-03 16:53 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-03 17:10 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-04 10:28 +0000
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-03 21:05 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-03 18:42 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-03-03 23:54 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-04 13:49 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-04 17:23 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-05 04:02 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-05 19:01 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-06 02:17 +0000
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-03-06 23:48 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-07 17:23 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] hostilefork@gmail.com - 2014-03-08 01:37 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-08 20:32 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-03-04 22:15 -0800
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-04 16:41 -0500
                Re: Rebol, Red, Haxe languages, was [Re: Forth in oblivion] "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-04 17:06 -0500
                Re: Forth in oblivion Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-05 11:11 -0600
                Re: Forth in oblivion hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-03-07 21:14 -0800
  Re: Forth in oblivion albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-18 13:17 +0000

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