Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: There is no standard Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:31:47 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <83dfbd03-6cb8-4b17-9348-ccb009f1896b@googlegroups.com> <54-dnWLLhpdgRDTOnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@supernews.com> <0IGdnayTRv8tnTfOnZ2dnUVZ_oWdnZ2d@supernews.com> <95881202-0f17-4100-b859-0d652fe96006@googlegroups.com> <2014Jun25.153947@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2014Jun25.190415@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <4a88ae68-1b29-4cbc-9ebc-f569d416755e@googlegroups.com> <-N6dnWEkBLMPtzDOnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:32012 On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:25:54 -0400, Andrew Haley wrote: > ASCIIZ sucks, and I explained why, and no language since C has > used it AFAIAA. No. Does "no language since C" include or exclude all of C's derivatives? (i.e., "weasel" wording) How many of the high-use modern languages are derived from C? Basically, *all* of them ... (See TIOBE index.) Rod Pemberton