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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Recent FORTHs' guts (was: Documentation )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.084312.95@wronz.org.nz>
- From: mentink@wronz.org.nz
- Date: 28 Jan 93 08:43:12 +1300
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- Ray Duncan writes,
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- >One of the reasons the surviving Forth vendors have concentrated
- >on embedded systems is that this is one of the few market niches
- >that has not been systematically destroyed by the FIG-public domain-
- >hacker cabal. Now that people like Ting are circulating atrocities
- >like EFORTH, even the embedded systems market is dying. This is not
- >a flame, it's just the sad truth.
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- Sounds like you are jealous at the SUCESS of eforth. Eforth was intended
- to be a KERNAL that was easily transported to different processors and
- environments. I have ported forth to the H8 micro in two weeks work,
- spent one week adding extra features I wanted, then spent two weeks
- writing the application code for an embedded system. The system has been
- running for months now (faultlessly) and since then I have written several
- other applications. Sounds like a TOOL not an atrocity!
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- >It's certainly been clear to me from lurking in this newsgroup for
- >months that *this* sector of the Forth community, although it
- >prides itself on being a center of Forth expertise, has no clue
- >whatsoever as to what the Forth vendors (Forth Inc., LMI,
- >Harvard Softworks, Vesta, Creative Solutions, etc.) have to offer
- >or the capabilities of their systems. Thus, newcomers to Forth,
- >who come here for advice, are being steered to EFORTH, FPC, and
- >other undocumented unstable unsupported public domain Forth systems
- >as "solutions." No wonder Forth is in decline!
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- And by what evidence do you regard EFORTH as unstable ?
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- Bernie Mentink
- Christchurch NewZealand.
- email:mentink@wronz.org.nz
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