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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for word names?
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:17:48 -0500
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 10:45:10 -0500, Hans Bezemer  
<the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rod Pemberton wrote:

>> You are aware that a well respected Forther,
>> Rob Chapman, PHD/EE, member of the Green Arrays
>> team, notable for Timbre, botForth, Stack Quarks,
>> C without C, various Forth research papers published
>> in the Rochester Forth conference, etc, called it NUP,
>> yes?
>
>> You are also aware that Philip Koopman, another well
>> respected Forther, author of "Stack Computers: the
>> new wave", whose papers were in Journal of Forth
>> Applications and Research, calls it UNDER, yes?
>
> Are you aware that Chuck Moore, the very first Forther in
> the world has repeatedly stated in public that he hates
> words that don't mean anything?
>

No.  He's not a talkative guy ...  So, did he actually say that?

Seriously, you have to question someone's comprehension if they
believe words, even meaningless words, have no meaning ...


Rod Pemberton