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Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help

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Subject Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help
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gids.rs@sasktel.net writes:

> You are probably in the same boat I was with The Forth language.  Too
> many incomplete systems, but after disassembling each one and coming
> across the source of one popular application, I am able to program a
> more complete Forth system that has the best traits of all the other
> Forths.
>
> It was even much easier to port some words written for a Forth system
> written for another platform.
>
> Until recently I didn’t think any applications were written with
> Forth.  A complete working application and its source helped me out a
> lot.
>
> You may have to do the same and find a complete working application in
> Cobol to see how they managed the discrepancy

For what it's worth, the game Amnesia (by electronic arts) was written
in Forth.  The game's english parser is really just a forth vocabulary.


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Jerry    awanderin at gmail dot com

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CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help m.omalley.au@gmail.com - 2020-04-16 07:33 -0700
  Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help James Davis <JPD.Enterprises@outlook.com> - 2020-04-17 00:33 -0700
    Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help James Davis <JPD.Enterprises@outlook.com> - 2020-04-17 00:43 -0700
      Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help James Davis <JPD.Enterprises@outlook.com> - 2020-04-17 00:46 -0700
        Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help m.omalley.au@gmail.com - 2020-04-17 03:17 -0700
    Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help m.omalley.au@gmail.com - 2020-04-17 03:19 -0700
      Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2020-04-17 11:28 -0700
        Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help awanderin <awanderin@gmail.com> - 2020-04-17 17:30 -0600
          Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help Antoine Vignau <ntn.vignau@gmail.com> - 2020-04-17 18:55 -0700
        Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help m.omalley.au@gmail.com - 2020-04-22 06:12 -0700
  Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help djay <geewilly@netzero.net> - 2020-04-27 16:16 -0700
    Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help djay <geewilly@netzero.net> - 2020-04-27 16:49 -0700
      Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help m.omalley.au@gmail.com - 2020-05-02 05:57 -0700
  Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2020-04-28 12:09 -0700
    Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2020-04-28 12:34 -0700
      Re: CP/M COBOL for the Apple ][ - Please Help m.omalley.au@gmail.com - 2020-05-02 05:37 -0700

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