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- From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Documenting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.171538.29836@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:15:38 GMT
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- Andrew Haley writes:
- >
- >I asked him about that a few weeks ago.
-
- Thanks for posting this, Andrew. This is interesting stuff.
-
- >Chuck's environment has never stood still. He's been refining it and
- >making it simpler and simpler for what he wants to do.
- >
- >Chuck has always been willing to throw away
- >anything in Forth which isn't ideal for the job at hand; what we might
- >recognize as "classical Forth" is microFORTH, circa 1978. He's been
- >changing things ever since.
-
- I suspected as much. He sounds like a true user of the language, not
- someone just interested in making a fancy, asthetically pleasing tool
- for it's own sake. Arguing over various improvements is a waste of
- time when you can simply implement them and get on with your work,
- especially since this is the whole point of Forth. I am curious if
- he has developed the entire Forth system he uses from scratch, or if
- he is building on another product (polyForth?).
-
- >However, Chuck did write a paper on the origin of Forth for the
- >upcoming History Of Programming Languages conference, but it was
- >rejected because it was "too informal." I don't know if the paper
- >will be published elsewhere.
-
- Sounds like something that would be well received. I hope he will
- consider attempting to get it published or at least distributing it
- himself. (Too informal? Good grief.)
-
- --
- James Hague
- exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
-