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- From: John_Somerville@mindlink.bc.ca (John Somerville)
- Subject: Re: Forth's Adaptability
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:44:45 GMT
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- I write code in about eight languages. LMI Forth happens to be one of them. I
- have also used several public domain Forths. I found the greatest portability
- to be roughly in this order 1) ProlAWK, 3) BASIC) Basic. After that
- portability becomes more and more mythical. I have found the public domain
- Forths to be very incompatible. If you refer to Guy Kellys comparison of
- several Forths in Forth Dimensions you will find some astounding differences.
- The chief problem in porting from LMI to some of the other Forths is that
- they don't conform to the 83 standard at all. In fact LMI may be the only
- true blue 83 of the commercial Forths, and perhaps F83, (FPC?), of the public
- domains.
-
- Since I don't write C I can't comment, but I have heard complaints. The key
- is I believe: find a good vendor and stick with them. Even then I've found
- some vendors, will break your code. Borland for example left out overlays for
- version 5.0 of Turbo Pascal.
- --
- john somerville B.C. Hydro
- affiliations FIG Forth Interest Group
-