Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth16e, Forth32e, "de facto" forth programming standards for embedded Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 02:01:45 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <49aa991d-41c6-44ae-afe4-ad1b7434011b@googlegroups.com> <62cc3792-e246-4f0b-b671-c09908d5f3b0@googlegroups.com> <9f8a7188-7ef0-4ae4-8341-e27a41f9a44b@googlegroups.com> <836283a2-64a1-4811-b653-13a099fbbb46@googlegroups.com> <0ade3c7c-d1c0-41f5-8f5e-055d66aaff6b@googlegroups.com> <53c928c6.819888433@news.demon.co.uk> <7xmwc69rdv.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <7xegxi9pzi.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <7edd6024-75fc-4c09-a7a9-892cd8b2c176@googlegroups.com> <29de697e-474a-4f99-95f8-23921c0eca28@googlegroups.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:32511 On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:05:05 -0400, wrote: > On Saturday, July 19, 2014 6:36:25 PM UTC-7, Rod Pemberton wrote: >> It's clear to me that ANS is not all that different from >> pre-ANS Forth. > > Thank you very much, Captain Obvious! If that's the case, why did you just complain about ANS? ... HA> I really believe that the only way for Forth to succeed, HA> is to abandon ANS-Forth. How is anyone to believe anything you say when you contradict yourself in the next breath? How is anyone to believe what you say when you can't remember what you wrote and aren't willing to reread it to confirm? How is anyone to expect that you won't just recreate ANS-Forth with the supposed flaws you hate but somewhere else? Rod Pemberton