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The Wikipedia article on Forth

Started byjim <njbetts@gmail.com>
First post2017-02-24 15:05 -0800
Last post2017-02-27 01:21 -0500
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  The Wikipedia article on Forth jim <njbetts@gmail.com> - 2017-02-24 15:05 -0800
    The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-02-24 15:14 -0800
      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-24 23:38 -0800
      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-02-25 04:51 -0600
      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-02-25 13:00 +0100
        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-26 14:29 +1100
          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-26 09:30 +0000
            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 02:44 -0800
              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 03:12 -0800
                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 03:25 -0800
              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-26 14:00 -0800
                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 14:32 -0800
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-26 22:58 +0000
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 15:29 -0800
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 21:57 -0500
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-26 19:17 -0800
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 22:21 -0500
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-26 15:41 -0800
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-26 14:46 -1000
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-26 17:08 -0800
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-26 15:18 -1000
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 14:20 -0800
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 17:47 -0500
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 15:16 -0800
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 19:04 -0500
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 21:52 -0800
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 01:12 -0500
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:33 -0800
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 19:23 -0500
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 08:04 -0800
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-27 18:54 -0600
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:17 -0800
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-28 03:50 -0800
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 05:28 -0800
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-28 13:59 -0800
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 08:25 -0800
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-27 23:00 -0800
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-02-28 11:51 +0100
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 05:19 -0800
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 19:34 -0500
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:42 -0800
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-10 10:16 +1100
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 18:21 -0500
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-09 23:44 +0000
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-09 19:55 -0500
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-03-10 11:24 -0800
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-10 13:38 -0800
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-11 12:08 +0000
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-09 16:34 -1000
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-09 22:43 -0800
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-11 15:23 +1100
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-10 21:17 +1100
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-11 12:06 +0000
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-12 05:32 -0500
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-12 11:17 +0000
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-12 13:18 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-12 14:59 +0000
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-03-12 15:00 -0400
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-13 10:43 +1100
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-13 07:57 +0000
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-13 10:26 +0000
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-10 03:27 -0600
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-10 08:47 -1000
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-11 01:57 -0600
            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-26 10:00 -0800
              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-26 18:32 +0000
                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-26 11:52 -0800
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-26 20:23 +0000
              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 11:21 -0800
                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-26 19:41 +0000
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 11:55 -0800
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-26 20:14 +0000
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 12:37 -0800
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 14:26 -0800
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-27 14:10 +1100
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-26 19:43 -0800
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-02-27 04:13 -0600
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Ilya Tarasov <ilya74.tarasov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 14:31 -0800
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-02-28 03:53 -0600
            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-27 13:15 +1100
              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 02:22 -0800
                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-27 15:52 -1000
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-28 14:44 +1100
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-27 22:55 -0800
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-04 21:38 +1100
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 06:11 -0500
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-04 12:21 +0000
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 13:27 -0500
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-03-05 08:50 -0800
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-08 15:12 +0000
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-05 18:25 +1100
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 02:38 -0500
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-07 18:20 +1100
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 02:45 -0500
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-07 08:54 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 04:42 -0500
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-07 04:06 -0600
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@nothishetnet.nl> - 2017-03-07 13:02 +0100
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-08 18:43 +1100
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-07 22:04 -1000
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-08 19:49 +1100
                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 19:02 -0500
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-08 10:06 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 03:35 -0500
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-08 13:41 +0000
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-03-08 15:29 +0100
                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-08 15:10 +0000
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-07 08:31 +0000
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-03-11 22:03 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-11 22:56 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-12 05:36 -0500
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-03-12 15:14 +0000
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-12 19:46 -0700
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-04 12:09 +0000
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth alex@rivadpm.com - 2017-03-05 15:28 -0800
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-05 22:05 +0000
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth julian.fondren@endurance.com - 2017-03-04 07:23 -0800
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-03-11 22:11 +0000
                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 07:25 -0800
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-05 19:10 +1100
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 04:27 -0500
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-05 18:24 -0800
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-07 18:16 +1100
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-03-07 11:35 +0000
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-07 17:13 -1000
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-08 19:10 +1100
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 03:38 -0500
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-08 10:18 +0000
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-03-11 22:41 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-11 16:50 -1000
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-12 09:56 +0000
                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-12 14:31 -1000
                                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-03-15 23:54 +0000
                                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-15 19:00 -0700
                                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-15 21:27 -0700
                                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-15 21:39 -0700
                                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-15 22:13 -0700
                                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth stephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2017-03-16 10:20 +0000
                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-12 19:42 -0700
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-12 19:39 -0700
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-12 05:48 -0500
                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 01:26 -0800
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 05:33 -0500
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-06 04:33 -0600
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-06 17:16 +0000
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-06 12:28 -0600
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 11:10 -0800
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 11:12 -0800
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 15:22 -0500
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-06 12:28 -0800
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-07 02:51 -0600
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-07 13:13 +0000
                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 14:50 -0500
                                          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 12:06 -0800
                                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 16:00 -0500
                                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth julian.fondren@endurance.com - 2017-03-07 13:18 -0800
                                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-08 00:16 +0000
                                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-08 03:04 -0600
                                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-08 09:52 +0000
                                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-08 05:09 -0600
                                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-08 14:05 +0000
                                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-08 12:05 -0600
                                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-08 03:00 -0600
                                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-03-11 22:53 +0000
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-03-11 23:19 +0000
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-03-11 17:01 -1000
                                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-12 10:12 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-12 07:02 -0500
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-12 12:43 +0000
                                        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-03-12 12:28 -0500
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-03-12 16:29 +0100
                                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-03-12 16:16 +0000
                                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-03-12 21:42 +0000
                            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-08 19:13 +1100
                              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-03-08 01:33 -0800
                                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-03-10 10:37 +1100
                      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-03-04 18:35 -0800
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-27 23:12 -0800
              Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-27 13:13 +0000
                Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-27 23:28 -0800
                  Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-02-28 07:49 +0000
                    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:32 -0500
    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-25 11:55 +1100
    Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-02-24 22:14 -1000
      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@nothishetnet.nl> - 2017-02-26 15:15 +0100
      Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-26 20:02 -0800
        Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-26 23:08 -0500
          Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-26 23:27 -0600
            Re: The Wikipedia article on Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-27 01:21 -0500

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#55530

From"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Date2017-03-08 19:49 +1100
Message-ID<o9ogfe$96j$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#55525
Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> On 3/7/17 9:43 PM, HAA wrote:
> > rickman wrote:
> >> On 3/7/2017 2:20 AM, HAA wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> The current pdf says 10 Nov 2014.  Either way, release date is unimportant.
> >>> What will interest standard supporters is whether there exists a 'Forth 2012
> >>> Standard' they may use and quote.  The notice above which appears on the
> >>> current pdf would effectively exclude it as a standard.
> >>
> >> That's funny, it works for me.
> >
> > It won't work for those expecting a standard.  By definition a standard is frozen
> > and not subject to change.  That's the point of them.
>
> Not according to ANSI, which *requires* that standards be either
> reaffirmed or modified at least every 5 years. I think other standards
> organizations have similar rules. But, technically, the 200x group
> should call Forth 2012 the doc released under that name, and if there
> are any mods the result should be Draft 20xx Standard. That way people
> can say "2012 compatible" and mean something.
>
> Cheers,
> Elizabeth

I see no contradiction.  "reaffirmed" sounds like no technical change.
"modified" would require a new date effectively making it a new standard.
You haven't commented on the 'draft subject to change' notice in the
Forth 2012 doc.  I doubt that would be permitted in a 'standard' for the
reason you state.


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#55562

Fromrickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Date2017-03-08 19:02 -0500
Message-ID<o9q5tm$fjp$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55530
On 3/8/2017 3:49 AM, HAA wrote:
> Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
>> On 3/7/17 9:43 PM, HAA wrote:
>>> rickman wrote:
>>>> On 3/7/2017 2:20 AM, HAA wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> The current pdf says 10 Nov 2014.  Either way, release date is unimportant.
>>>>> What will interest standard supporters is whether there exists a 'Forth 2012
>>>>> Standard' they may use and quote.  The notice above which appears on the
>>>>> current pdf would effectively exclude it as a standard.
>>>>
>>>> That's funny, it works for me.
>>>
>>> It won't work for those expecting a standard.  By definition a standard is frozen
>>> and not subject to change.  That's the point of them.
>>
>> Not according to ANSI, which *requires* that standards be either
>> reaffirmed or modified at least every 5 years. I think other standards
>> organizations have similar rules. But, technically, the 200x group
>> should call Forth 2012 the doc released under that name, and if there
>> are any mods the result should be Draft 20xx Standard. That way people
>> can say "2012 compatible" and mean something.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Elizabeth
>
> I see no contradiction.  "reaffirmed" sounds like no technical change.
> "modified" would require a new date effectively making it a new standard.
> You haven't commented on the 'draft subject to change' notice in the
> Forth 2012 doc.  I doubt that would be permitted in a 'standard' for the
> reason you state.

Do you not understand what a draft is???  They didn't bang out the thing 
in one pass.  The draft is one of the final passes, I believe this is 
the last one before it was approved and final.

-- 

Rick C

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#55535

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2017-03-08 10:06 +0000
Message-ID<2017Mar8.110640@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#55525
"Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> writes:
>But, technically, the 200x group 
>should call Forth 2012 the doc released under that name, and if there 
>are any mods the result should be Draft 20xx Standard.

That's what we do (except that the drafts of the next (post-2012)
standard are still called Forth 200x drafts).

>That way people 
>can say "2012 compatible" and mean something.

They can.

What makes you think it would be different?

There is certainly a reason why we make a difference between "Forth
2012" and "Forth 200x draft".

BTW, if somebody is working with a document from 2013, it either says
something like "Forth 2012 RC2" on its title page (where "RC" means
"release candidate"), or "Forth-200x Draft ...".

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
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#55528

Fromrickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Date2017-03-08 03:35 -0500
Message-ID<o9ofjk$d21$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55524
On 3/8/2017 2:43 AM, HAA wrote:
> rickman wrote:
>> On 3/7/2017 2:20 AM, HAA wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The current pdf says 10 Nov 2014.  Either way, release date is unimportant.
>>> What will interest standard supporters is whether there exists a 'Forth 2012
>>> Standard' they may use and quote.  The notice above which appears on the
>>> current pdf would effectively exclude it as a standard.
>>
>> That's funny, it works for me.
>
> It won't work for those expecting a standard.  By definition a standard is frozen
> and not subject to change.  That's the point of them.

I guess that's why standards are never updated... eh?

-- 

Rick C

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#55541

FromAlex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Date2017-03-08 13:41 +0000
Message-ID<o9p1i0$75l$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55524
On 3/8/2017 07:43, HAA wrote:
> rickman wrote:
>> On 3/7/2017 2:20 AM, HAA wrote:
>>> ...
>>> The current pdf says 10 Nov 2014.  Either way, release date is unimportant.
>>> What will interest standard supporters is whether there exists a 'Forth 2012
>>> Standard' they may use and quote.  The notice above which appears on the
>>> current pdf would effectively exclude it as a standard.
>>
>> That's funny, it works for me.
>
> It won't work for those expecting a standard.  By definition a standard is frozen
> and not subject to change.  That's the point of them.

There will be canonical versions, which is what you might have meant. 
Standards that work are always on the move; errata, corrections, new 
material. A frozen no-change standard is of no use to anyone, and that 
isn't how they are defined, and is not their point.

-- 
Alex

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#55547

Fromalbert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst)
Date2017-03-08 15:29 +0100
Message-ID<o9p4fd$urb$1@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
In reply to#55541
In article <o9p1i0$75l$1@dont-email.me>, Alex  <alex@rivadpm.com> wrote:

>There will be canonical versions, which is what you might have meant.
>Standards that work are always on the move; errata, corrections, new
>material. A frozen no-change standard is of no use to anyone, and that
>isn't how they are defined, and is not their point.

On the contrary. Being frozen is the essence of a standard.
Correction and explanations are only there to make the standard
what it should have been in the first place.
In fact they are not changes, they are approximations to the
elusive platonic standard the writers had in mind but couldn't
get on paper.

The same applies to releases. If one uses a release of a Forth
one doesn't want more than bug-removal, i.e. changes that
make the Forth do more exactly what the reference documentation
promises.

On Android and Windows the user applications are updated all
the time without notice. That is detrimental to professional
tools, such as compilers.
Not everybody seem to understand this.

>--
>Alex

Groetjes Albert
-- 
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Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters.
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#55549

FromAlex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Date2017-03-08 15:10 +0000
Message-ID<o9p6n8$pel$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55547
On 3/8/2017 14:29, Albert van der Horst wrote:
> In article <o9p1i0$75l$1@dont-email.me>, Alex  <alex@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>
>> There will be canonical versions, which is what you might have meant.
>> Standards that work are always on the move; errata, corrections, new
>> material. A frozen no-change standard is of no use to anyone, and that
>> isn't how they are defined, and is not their point.
>
> On the contrary. Being frozen is the essence of a standard.

That's the canonical version to which I referred.

> Correction and explanations are only there to make the standard
> what it should have been in the first place.
> In fact they are not changes, they are approximations to the
> elusive platonic standard the writers had in mind but couldn't
> get on paper.

People seem to have this weird idea about standards aspiring to describe 
some idealised, frozen, fixed in time, pickled in aspic version of a 
virtual and perfect world; yet only casting dim and flickering shadows 
on the back wall of the programmer's cave.

They don't do that, since that makes them useless in the real world. We 
know from experience that they're useful. What the best standards try to 
describe is what happens in the real world.

An example. The IETF NFS work group developed RFC 3530, the standard for 
NFSv4. Interoperability is vital for NFS servers and clients; this is a 
critical piece of technology as approx 50% of the file system data in 
the world is carried on NFS.

It was subsequently replaced by RFC 7530 and the changes were 
considerable, even though they both describe the very same thing. 
Practise with RFC 3530 demonstrated that the running code (both NFSv4 
clients and servers) had deviated from the standard, which had in areas 
(a) under-described (b) over-proscribed and (c) failed to consider vital 
corner cases. So much so, that the large number of errata and changes to 
RFC 3530 forced a new standard. No one demanded that the products based 
on RFC 3530 change to meet the requirements of the standard. *The NFSv4 
standard had to change so it could better describe the real world*.

So then; I do wish people would get this "standards stifle innovation 
because they force me to do things one way as described in 240BC by some 
Greek philosopher programmer". Standards encourage innovation because 
they force you to describe *how the damn thing works in real life* and 
makes it easier for others to develop their products that work and act 
the same way as yours does.

Standards are not frozen by design, nor by intent, nor by any other 
reason. No-one has need of such things, since they have no value.

>
> The same applies to releases. If one uses a release of a Forth
> one doesn't want more than bug-removal, i.e. changes that
> make the Forth do more exactly what the reference documentation
> promises.
>
> On Android and Windows the user applications are updated all
> the time without notice. That is detrimental to professional
> tools, such as compilers.
> Not everybody seem to understand this.

That is a completely different issue.

>
>> --
>> Alex
>
> Groetjes Albert
>


-- 
Alex

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#55485

FromAlex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Date2017-03-07 08:31 +0000
Message-ID<o9lr0n$uco$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55483
>
> rickman wrote:
>> On 3/5/2017 3:10 AM, HAA wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Asking is pointless when someone doesn't want to answer.  Better to look
>>> at what they do (or in this case, don't).  I've suggested on several occasions
>>> Forth Inc is not committed to 200x and nobody has challenged it.
>>
>> Maybe because no one cares???
>
> 200x may care because the political reality is that without Forth Inc behind it,
> they won't have a standard.
>

That doesn't follow. Adoption of a standard by Forth Inc is not a 
prerequisite for calling it a standard, nor a barrier to others using it.

It is more likely that Forth Inc, as a business that is involved in 
Forth (compilers, tools consulting, development maintenance of products) 
is tracking the changes to ensure that they understand them, and can 
influence them to their advantage -- or at least, to make sure that they 
aren't disadvantaged by them. Many companies do this; I am an observer 
for a number of standards of interest to my company.

Standards take time to be developed and adopted. I have been involved in 
one where the standard was first ratified in 1989, then updated in 1995. 
The 1995 version of the standard was very popular, with hundreds of 
commercial products that provided support for it.

Work started immediately on its successor, which was ratified in 2003. 
It was implemented by a very small number of vendors, and was almost 
unknown in end user implementations.

Work continued to modify & augment it, and another version was ratified 
in 2010. There were no substantial commercial product implementations 
until 2011, when 3 major vendors implemented separate and 
non-interoperating optional parts of the standard.

Only now are we seeing any widespread adoption by vendors of 
interoperable parts of the standard, and end users of products that use 
it. But users of products based on the 1995 standard still dominate; I 
reckon there are 10 times as many users of the 1995 standard as of the 
2010 update.

It's taken 20+ years for NFS to get this far. Should it be any faster 
for Forth?

-- 
Alex

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#55639

FromBernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de>
Date2017-03-11 22:03 +0000
Message-ID<oa1s82$u80$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55485
Am Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:31:58 +0000 schrieb Alex:
> It is more likely that Forth Inc, as a business that is involved in
> Forth (compilers, tools consulting, development maintenance of products)
> is tracking the changes to ensure that they understand them, and can
> influence them to their advantage -- or at least, to make sure that they
> aren't disadvantaged by them. Many companies do this; I am an observer
> for a number of standards of interest to my company.

Yes, they do.  I must however say that them not implementing the things 
they have modified to not hurt them is taking them credibility.  When we 
went to replace LOCALS| (which nobody used) by { .. }, Forth Inc. vetoed 
it into {: .. :}, since they used curly braces for multi-line comments.

And then, they don't implement {: .. :}.  The other participants added {: 
as alias to the existing } in their implementations.  { .. } continues to 
be de facto standard (nobody is going to remove it, we need to maintain 
compatibility), although Anton now teaches {: .. :}.  My point is that as 
long as there is no system out there that doesn't treat { .. } and 
{: .. :} as synonyms, I don't have to go over my code and change it.  We 
can just ignore the problems Forth Inc. might have if they would 
implement a new standard extension, because we now presume they won't in 
any case ;-).

So, please, Forth Inc.: It adds credibility to your efforts in the TC if 
you actually implement Forth-2012, especially for your vetos.  My feeling 
is that the vendors are holding back new things, and a very common theme 
is "we need more time".  The same vendors who don't implement the things 
that are already (with their consensus) in the standard need more time to 
evaluate whether other things are useful.

IMHO, we could as well stage the standard procedure for new things (as 
opposed to things that have been around for 20+ years, and just nobody 
included them in a standard document):

The first stage is the experiment.  Those are things currently being 
implemented the first time.  It can (and will) change, and it doesn't 
need a big consensus, here, the right time to present your proposal is 
probably the conference following the standard meeting, not the standard 
meeting itself.

The second stage then is "in adaption".  Progressive implementers have 
implemented it, usually resulting in some divergence due to different 
implementations.  The recognizers are in that stage now, and Matthias 
Trute asked me why he should add the trouble of abstracting away some 
things that have a straight-forward implementation in amForth, just 
because Gforth does it slightly different (and less straight-forward) - 
and the answer is simple: Because we are the people who push this 
proposal, and if even we aren't happy with it, it's dead.

And the third phase is then "widely adapted", in which case the 
documentation is stable.

Fourth phase of a proposal then is "deprecated/replaced by something 
else".

This then also makes clear that a standard is not something cast into 
stone, but a living process of an API documentation.  We are doing 
software, not screws and paper sheets.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
net2o ID: kQusJzA;7*?t=uy@X}1GWr!+0qqp_Cn176t4(dQ*
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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#55643

FromAlex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Date2017-03-11 22:56 +0000
Message-ID<oa1v5d$e0t$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55639
On 3/11/2017 22:03, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Am Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:31:58 +0000 schrieb Alex:
>> It is more likely that Forth Inc, as a business that is involved in
>> Forth (compilers, tools consulting, development maintenance of products)
>> is tracking the changes to ensure that they understand them, and can
>> influence them to their advantage -- or at least, to make sure that they
>> aren't disadvantaged by them. Many companies do this; I am an observer
>> for a number of standards of interest to my company.
>
> Yes, they do.  I must however say that them not implementing the things
> they have modified to not hurt them is taking them credibility.  When we
> went to replace LOCALS| (which nobody used) by { .. }, Forth Inc. vetoed
> it into {: .. :}, since they used curly braces for multi-line comments.
>
> And then, they don't implement {: .. :}.  The other participants added {:
> as alias to the existing } in their implementations.  { .. } continues to
> be de facto standard (nobody is going to remove it, we need to maintain
> compatibility), although Anton now teaches {: .. :}.  My point is that as
> long as there is no system out there that doesn't treat { .. } and
> {: .. :} as synonyms, I don't have to go over my code and change it.  We
> can just ignore the problems Forth Inc. might have if they would
> implement a new standard extension, because we now presume they won't in
> any case ;-).
>

Well, that's one option, but one in my experience that doesn't always 
end up well.

> So, please, Forth Inc.: It adds credibility to your efforts in the TC if
> you actually implement Forth-2012, especially for your vetos.  My feeling
> is that the vendors are holding back new things, and a very common theme
> is "we need more time".  The same vendors who don't implement the things
> that are already (with their consensus) in the standard need more time to
> evaluate whether other things are useful.
>
> IMHO, we could as well stage the standard procedure for new things (as
> opposed to things that have been around for 20+ years, and just nobody
> included them in a standard document):
>
> The first stage is the experiment.  Those are things currently being
> implemented the first time.  It can (and will) change, and it doesn't
> need a big consensus, here, the right time to present your proposal is
> probably the conference following the standard meeting, not the standard
> meeting itself.
>
> The second stage then is "in adaption".  Progressive implementers have
> implemented it, usually resulting in some divergence due to different
> implementations.  The recognizers are in that stage now, and Matthias
> Trute asked me why he should add the trouble of abstracting away some
> things that have a straight-forward implementation in amForth, just
> because Gforth does it slightly different (and less straight-forward) -
> and the answer is simple: Because we are the people who push this
> proposal, and if even we aren't happy with it, it's dead.

Who's "we are the people"? The committee or Gforth maintainers?

>
> And the third phase is then "widely adapted", in which case the
> documentation is stable.

This is the stage at which most standards groups will entertain formal 
proposals for discussion & vote, although the content will already have 
been prepared & discussed informally during stage 2.

>
> Fourth phase of a proposal then is "deprecated/replaced by something
> else".
>
> This then also makes clear that a standard is not something cast into
> stone, but a living process of an API documentation.  We are doing
> software, not screws and paper sheets.
>

This is where I think the process might be a little slow.

-- 
Alex

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#55682

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2017-03-12 05:36 -0500
Message-ID<iMWdndDbKIoIuVjFnZ2dnUU7-eOdnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#55639
Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:31:58 +0000 schrieb Alex:
>> It is more likely that Forth Inc, as a business that is involved in
>> Forth (compilers, tools consulting, development maintenance of
>> products) is tracking the changes to ensure that they understand
>> them, and can influence them to their advantage -- or at least, to
>> make sure that they aren't disadvantaged by them. Many companies do
>> this; I am an observer for a number of standards of interest to my
>> company.
>
> Yes, they do.  I must however say that them not implementing the
> things they have modified to not hurt them is taking them
> credibility.  When we went to replace LOCALS| (which nobody used) by
> { .. }, Forth Inc. vetoed it into {: .. :}, since they used curly
> braces for multi-line comments.

Forth, Inc could not have done that because they do not have veto
rights.  No-one does.

Andrew.

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#55702

Fromstephen@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Date2017-03-12 15:14 +0000
Message-ID<58c564ca.444317820@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#55682
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 05:36:05 -0500, Andrew Haley
<andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:

>> Yes, they do.  I must however say that them not implementing the
>> things they have modified to not hurt them is taking them
>> credibility.  When we went to replace LOCALS| (which nobody used) by
>> { .. }, Forth Inc. vetoed it into {: .. :}, since they used curly
>> braces for multi-line comments.
>
>Forth, Inc could not have done that because they do not have veto
>rights.  No-one does.

In practice, if the maintainer of a significant implementation says
that s/he is never going to implement that notation because it
breaks code, then committee members are going to look hard for an
acceptable alternative.

That's what happened in this case. I didn't like it, but we got a way
forward. The side effects of Forth Inc adopting a conflicting notation
are still there for Forth Inc.

Stephen

-- 
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MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
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#55722

Fromhughaguilar96@gmail.com
Date2017-03-12 19:46 -0700
Message-ID<e46599c2-f308-4a1f-8b2b-415d1a813232@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#55682
On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 3:36:10 AM UTC-7, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 07 Mar 2017 08:31:58 +0000 schrieb Alex:
> >> It is more likely that Forth Inc, as a business that is involved in
> >> Forth (compilers, tools consulting, development maintenance of
> >> products) is tracking the changes to ensure that they understand
> >> them, and can influence them to their advantage -- or at least, to
> >> make sure that they aren't disadvantaged by them. Many companies do
> >> this; I am an observer for a number of standards of interest to my
> >> company.
> >
> > Yes, they do.  I must however say that them not implementing the
> > things they have modified to not hurt them is taking them
> > credibility.  When we went to replace LOCALS| (which nobody used) by
> > { .. }, Forth Inc. vetoed it into {: .. :}, since they used curly
> > braces for multi-line comments.
> 
> Forth, Inc could not have done that because they do not have veto
> rights.  No-one does.
> 
> Andrew.

You are a liar! 

Elizabeth Rather appointed all of the committee members. Forth Inc. has veto power over all of the committee members decisions. Also, Forth Inc. has veto power over the committee members themselves --- if they make decisions that disagree with Forth Inc., Elizabeth Rather can remove them from the committee and appoint new committee members who will be more loyal to her.

Elizabeth Rather appointed you to the Forth-200x committee because you worked for Forth Inc. and you were super-loyal to her --- you even taught the novice class at Forth Inc. when Elizabeth Rather wasn't able to do so herself --- your only qualification to be on the Forth-200x committee is that you are a brown-noser.

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#55404

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2017-03-04 12:09 +0000
Message-ID<2017Mar4.130938@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#55402
"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
>There's a pdf entitled "Forth Standard 2012".  Nothing to indicate it is a
>draft, so I assume it is an official standard and supporters are using it now.

As far as the Forth 200x committee is concerned, Forth-2012 is not a
draft, but a finished document (not finished in the way that we don't
continue, however).  It's not an ANSI or ISO standard, however, so if
you want that level of officiality, you have to go back to Forth-94
(but then, I think ANSI and ISO consider Forth-94 retired or
something).

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
   EuroForth 2016: http://www.euroforth.org/ef16/

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#55428

Fromalex@rivadpm.com
Date2017-03-05 15:28 -0800
Message-ID<ad38849a-474d-4bf3-8941-6cacc76bdd0f@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#55404
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 12:13:08 PM UTC, Anton Ertl wrote:
> "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> >There's a pdf entitled "Forth Standard 2012".  Nothing to indicate it is a
> >draft, so I assume it is an official standard and supporters are using it now.
> 
> As far as the Forth 200x committee is concerned, Forth-2012 is not a
> draft, but a finished document (not finished in the way that we don't
> continue, however).  It's not an ANSI or ISO standard, however, so if
> you want that level of officiality, you have to go back to Forth-94
> (but then, I think ANSI and ISO consider Forth-94 retired or
> something).
> 
As far as I understand it, INCITS 215-1994 was raffirmed in 2001, 2006, 2011 and again in 2016. The next reaffirmation proposal will open late in 2021.

The rules for retirement are contained in this very legalese heavy document; https://share.ansi.org/shared%20documents/Standards%20Activities/American%20National%20Standards/Procedures,%20Guides,%20and%20Forms/2017_ANSI_Essential_Requirements.pdf


-- 
Alex 

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#55434

FromAlex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Date2017-03-05 22:05 +0000
Message-ID<o9i1u2$7rn$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55404
On 3/4/2017 12:09, Anton Ertl wrote:
> "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
>> There's a pdf entitled "Forth Standard 2012".  Nothing to indicate it is a
>> draft, so I assume it is an official standard and supporters are using it now.
>
> As far as the Forth 200x committee is concerned, Forth-2012 is not a
> draft, but a finished document (not finished in the way that we don't
> continue, however).  It's not an ANSI or ISO standard, however, so if
> you want that level of officiality, you have to go back to Forth-94
> (but then, I think ANSI and ISO consider Forth-94 retired or
> something).

As far as I understand it, INCITS 215-1994 was raffirmed in 2001, 2006, 
2011 and again in 2016. The next reaffirmation proposal will open late 
in 2021.

The rules for retirement are contained in this very legalese heavy 
document; 
https://share.ansi.org/shared%20documents/Standards%20Activities/American%20National%20Standards/Procedures,%20Guides,%20and%20Forms/2017_ANSI_Essential_Requirements.pdf


-- 
Alex

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#55407

Fromjulian.fondren@endurance.com
Date2017-03-04 07:23 -0800
Message-ID<c441266e-fa7f-4a76-8c8f-21a40960bc30@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#55402
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 4:36:06 AM UTC-6, HAA wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> > "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> > > You talk about 'what the Forth community wants'.  If it wanted a
> > > standard then I'd expect Forth Inc users to be banging on the door
> > > demanding 200x be implemented.
> >
> > Is 200x a standard rather than a draft of one?  Is the Forth community
> > satisfied that it already has a standard (ANS) with 200x being a
> > refinement, like more recent iterations of the C standard?
> >
> > The C standard is important and influential, but people mostly follow
> > C99 even though C11 is a thing.  There's an update in the works but not
> > that many users are really clamoring for it.
> 
> You're suggesting there are Standard supporters who are happy to stay
> with ANS?  Maybe, but it's hard finding anyone to admit it.
> 

There are two questions you can ask. The first is "hey is anyone here
happy to stick with ANS Forth?" The answer to that is: virtually
everyone who isn't already using some alternative Forth-like language.

Then there's the second question, which can start much like the first,
but which continues "oh btw, I'm an internet crazy person from the
Hugh School of Standardization and you're not allowed to say 'yes' to
the previous question if you're comfortable with environmental
dependencies, or if you ever post code assuming the presence of words
outside the standard, like PLACE, or if you ever use return stack
manipulation, or--"

The difference between these two questions is like the difference, in
public polling, between

  Q. Which of the following best describes your position on abortion?
  a. Pro-Life
  a. Pro-Death

and:

  Q. Which of the following best describes your position on abortion?
  a. Pro-Life
  b. Pro-Choice
  c. Anti-Abortion except in certain cases (rape, deformity, etc.)
  d. You support abortion for eugenic purposes (Swedish parent, etc.)

clf gets plenty of bad faith argumentation but this bad faith
treatment of other people's opinions is even more annoying. What do
you even hope to accomplish?

> There's a pdf entitled "Forth Standard 2012".  Nothing to indicate it is a
> draft, so I assume it is an official standard and supporters are using it now.

"oh btw, you're not allowed to say 'yes' to the previous question if
you haven't implemented all of Forth-200x."

People who still don't use the optional Extended-Character word set?
Secretly all heavy users of Retro Forth. Even they haven't told
themselves yet. But what else could they be?

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#55640

FromBernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de>
Date2017-03-11 22:11 +0000
Message-ID<oa1sn8$u80$4@dont-email.me>
In reply to#55407
Am Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:23:40 -0800 schrieb julian.fondren:
> People who still don't use the optional Extended-Character word set?
> Secretly all heavy users of Retro Forth. Even they haven't told
> themselves yet. But what else could they be?

Hm, Retro doesn't look very standard to me. And you can use the xchar 
wordset by just using TYPE.  Quite often, you don't need the rest.

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#55408

FromJulian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com>
Date2017-03-04 07:25 -0800
Message-ID<898da5af-aaf7-464b-9741-073cffdb1fa6@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#55402
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 4:36:06 AM UTC-6, HAA wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> > "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> > > You talk about 'what the Forth community wants'.  If it wanted a
> > > standard then I'd expect Forth Inc users to be banging on the door
> > > demanding 200x be implemented.
> >
> > Is 200x a standard rather than a draft of one?  Is the Forth community
> > satisfied that it already has a standard (ANS) with 200x being a
> > refinement, like more recent iterations of the C standard?
> >
> > The C standard is important and influential, but people mostly follow
> > C99 even though C11 is a thing.  There's an update in the works but not
> > that many users are really clamoring for it.
> 
> You're suggesting there are Standard supporters who are happy to stay
> with ANS?  Maybe, but it's hard finding anyone to admit it.
> 

There are two questions you can ask. The first is "hey is anyone here
happy to stick with ANS Forth?" The answer to that is: virtually
everyone who isn't already using some alternative Forth-like language.

Then there's the second question, which can start much like the first,
but which continues "oh btw, I'm an internet crazy person from the
Hugh School of Standardization and you're not allowed to say 'yes' to
the previous question if you're comfortable with environmental
dependencies, or if you ever post code assuming the presence of words
outside the standard, like PLACE, or if you ever use return stack
manipulation, or--"

The difference between these two questions is like the difference, in
public polling, between

  Q. Which of the following best describes your position on abortion?
  a. Pro-Life
  a. Pro-Death

and:

  Q. Which of the following best describes your position on abortion?
  a. Pro-Life
  b. Pro-Choice
  c. Anti-Abortion except in certain cases (rape, deformity, etc.)
  d. You support abortion for eugenic purposes (Swedish parent, etc.)

clf gets plenty of bad faith argumentation but this bad faith
treatment of other people's opinions is even more annoying. What do
you even hope to accomplish?

> There's a pdf entitled "Forth Standard 2012".  Nothing to indicate it is a
> draft, so I assume it is an official standard and supporters are using it now.

"oh btw, you're not allowed to say 'yes' to the previous question if
you haven't implemented all of Forth-200x."

People who still don't use the optional Extended-Character word set?
Secretly all heavy users of Retro Forth. Even they haven't told
themselves yet. But what else could they be?

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#55422

From"HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Date2017-03-05 19:10 +1100
Message-ID<o9gh1m$f6l$1@gioia.aioe.org>
In reply to#55408
Julian Fondren wrote:
> On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 4:36:06 AM UTC-6, HAA wrote:
> > Paul Rubin wrote:
> > > "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> writes:
> > > > You talk about 'what the Forth community wants'.  If it wanted a
> > > > standard then I'd expect Forth Inc users to be banging on the door
> > > > demanding 200x be implemented.
> > >
> > > Is 200x a standard rather than a draft of one?  Is the Forth community
> > > satisfied that it already has a standard (ANS) with 200x being a
> > > refinement, like more recent iterations of the C standard?
> > >
> > > The C standard is important and influential, but people mostly follow
> > > C99 even though C11 is a thing.  There's an update in the works but not
> > > that many users are really clamoring for it.
> >
> > You're suggesting there are Standard supporters who are happy to stay
> > with ANS?  Maybe, but it's hard finding anyone to admit it.
> >
>
> There are two questions you can ask.
> ...

Asking is pointless when someone doesn't want to answer.  Better to look
at what they do (or in this case, don't).  I've suggested on several occasions
Forth Inc is not committed to 200x and nobody has challenged it.


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