Re: Forth.org status

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Forth.org status
Date	2017-02-22 10:31 -0500
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On 2/22/2017 5:43 AM, JUERGEN wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 4:42:39 PM UTC, Julian Fondren wrote:
>> On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 8:00:26 AM UTC-6, JUERGEN wrote:
>>> I am quite direct here:
>>>
>>> 1. It seems the people responsible for this website are not responsible - then it means that they give a **** or are just lazy about their website responsibilities. This is fine for me, but THIS FACT should be made clear to the rest of the Forth community WITH THE RELVANT NAMES CLEARLY SHOWN AND DOCUMENTED.
>>>
>>
>> http://forth.org/index.html
>>
>>   Last updated March 2013. Please submit comments, suggestions, and
>>   corrections to the FIG webmaster.
>>
>> The last word is a link to a page about Dave Jaffe, which only
>> contains his email: dljaffe@stanford.edu
>>
>> You can hammer out the acceptable minutes/year of downtime for the
>> website, how parties should be informed about any outages, and so on.
>>
>>> 2. If Charles Moore, the inventor of Forth does not care, this is his decision, but I WANT IT IN WRITING FROM HIM   not as hearsay.
>>>
>>> This will mean that he abandons his own invention.
>>
>> So far, 100% of human inventions have been abandoned by their
>> inventor. I can't think of one improvement made to an invention by its
>> inventor a mere hundred years after the first improvement, for
>> example. If inventors aren't going to stick around for a few centuries
>> at the least, why bother with their works?
>>
>>>
>>> It seems there is a big grave for Forth data at the moment and nobody is coming to the funeral.
>>>
>>
>> Archives of GENIE logs are fun and all--I really did enjoy reading
>> through them--but they aren't life-essential. Forth's growth doesn't
>> depend on anyone's ability to find a decades-untouched shareware
>> system for the Amiga. And from buying old Forth books on Amazon, what
>> I've mainly discovered is that these books were pretty terrible. Some
>> are actually so bad that I have thoughts like: maybe THIS is why Forth
>> never took off. Maybe this book was on a sales shelf somewhere next to
>> books containing actually readable code.
>>
>> Make something new.
>>
>>> And the name should be changed from Forth to something like for example Assembly Programming widely improved for Rapid Interactive Software Development  or APRISD in short ( this product name is copyright ExMark )
>>
>> Oh, you're joking.
>
> yes, this was joking, the first thing that came to mind, but another name would get rid of all the old baggage.

Hasn't that been tried?  I seem to recall any number of systems that go 
by a name other than Forth-<anything> or <anything>-Forth.

-- 

Rick C

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Forth.org status Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-17 10:34 -0600
  Re: Forth.org status Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 11:14 -0800
    Re: Forth.org status Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-02-17 19:25 -0500
  Re: Forth.org status Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-02-18 12:57 -0600
    Re: Forth.org status Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-18 16:56 -0600
    Re: Forth.org status Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-18 16:07 -0800
      Re: Forth.org status Howerd <howerdo@yahoo.co.uk> - 2017-02-19 09:00 -0800
        Re: Forth.org status JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-02-20 11:52 -0800
          Re: Forth.org status Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-20 15:30 -0600
          Re: Forth.org status Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 01:46 -0800
          Re: Forth.org status Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-21 02:43 -0800
            Re: Forth.org status Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-02-21 05:47 -0600
              Re: Forth.org status JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-02-21 06:00 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 08:42 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 09:35 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 12:14 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2017-02-21 12:15 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2017-02-22 02:43 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 10:31 -0500
                Re: Forth.org status "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-23 09:37 +1100
                Re: Forth.org status Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 14:45 -0800
                Re: Forth.org status "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-24 12:12 +1100
                Re: Forth.org status hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-02-23 10:30 -0800
            Re: Forth.org status "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-02-22 21:35 +1100

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