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| Started by | Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> |
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| First post | 2015-09-18 10:33 -0700 |
| Last post | 2015-09-18 13:27 -0700 |
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6 Advanced Ancient Inventions We Still Can't Figure Out Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-18 10:33 -0700
Re: 6 Advanced Ancient Inventions We Still Can't Figure Out Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-18 11:20 -0700
Re: 6 Advanced Ancient Inventions We Still Can't Figure Out hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-09-18 13:27 -0700
| From | Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2015-09-18 10:33 -0700 |
| Subject | 6 Advanced Ancient Inventions We Still Can't Figure Out |
| Message-ID | <378efc55-8593-4bde-b4d1-2d9e996681a7@googlegroups.com> |
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlgbKU9mgJA I wonder if some day Forth will be considered like Damascus steel and then the Techno-Archaeologist will be surprised at how awesome it once was. Jason
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| From | Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> |
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| Date | 2015-09-18 11:20 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <874mireghu.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> |
| In reply to | #42072 |
Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> writes: > I wonder if some day Forth will be considered like Damascus steel and > then the Techno-Archaeologist will be surprised at how awesome it once > was. Damascus steel was mostly solved in the 1990's. The secret ingredient was vanadium. http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.html
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| From | hughaguilar96@gmail.com |
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| Date | 2015-09-18 13:27 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <111af1bd-af93-40e5-a8b8-4f6e9b9fb5a4@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #42072 |
On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 10:33:58 AM UTC-7, Jason Damisch wrote: > Here > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlgbKU9mgJA > > I wonder if some day Forth will be considered > like Damascus steel and then the Techno-Archaeologist > will be surprised at how awesome it once was. > > Jason It is not too late for Forth to succeed --- let the techno-archaeologist wonder at how awful C was --- all that is needed for Forth to succeed is for everybody to stop focusing on standardization and start focusing on innovation. Note that by "C" I mean ANSI-C not GCC --- GCC actually has some nice features.
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