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- From: mikc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mike Coughlin)
- Subject: Re: No CONSTANT in eforth??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.141750.29606@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov8.232606.16423@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1dnu46INN3ah@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:17:50 GMT
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- In article <1dnu46INN3ah@minnie.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de> uho@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann) writes:
- >
- >How can anyone be productive with eFORTH without these features?!
- [constant, vocabulary, does>]
- >Just wondering,
- > Ulrich
- >
- Why do people assume that eFORTH is a "complete" system? No Forth
- implemtation is complete, and eFORTH is just less complete than most.
- Some versions of Forth have a lot of words, but only work on one computer.
- eFORTH has very few words but has been ported to several computers. There
- is a difference in purpose.
- Those who want a larger version of eFORTH should be sure to publish
- their additions and should find a way to edit everything so all versions
- will be the same. Easier said than done.
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