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Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings
Date 2017-04-21 11:54 +1000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Rudy Velthuis wrote:
> HAA wrote:
> > ...
> > Forth has sufficient flexibility so when there's no library or not
> > fit for purpose, you won't be left stranded.
>
> I guess that is true for almost any general purpose language.
>
> But writing and testing your own code is not always preferrable to
> using existing, well written and thoroughly tested code from a
> (bonafide) library.

I know what's in the library code I write myself and can make an
intelligent decision whether or not to use it.  That won't be true
of library code written by others which by definition was created
to solve *their* problem.


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.Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-04-19 20:13 +0000
  Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-20 19:07 +1000
    Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-20 17:08 +0000
      Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-21 11:54 +1000
        Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 09:45 +0000
          Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-21 23:32 +1000
            Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings john <anon@example.com> - 2017-04-21 16:36 +0100
            Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 20:15 +0000
              Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 17:06 -0700
                Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-22 04:59 +0000
              Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-23 10:55 +1000
                Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 03:15 +0000
                Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings The Beez <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 04:07 -0700
                Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-05-05 15:26 +0000
    Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-20 13:32 -0700
  Re: .Re: splitting a string into 2 new strings "Robert L." <No_spamming@noWhere_7073.org> - 2017-04-21 00:19 +0000

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