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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Forth's Adaptability
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.93Jan26102555@tiger.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:25:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.150614.20069@crd.ge.com> <1jk69lINNhjo@news.cerf.net>
- <BEVAN.93Jan22131846@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> <1jqe2lINNiv8@news.cerf.net>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: duncan@nic.cerf.net's message of 23 Jan 93 03:29:25 GMT
-
- In article <1jqe2lINNiv8@news.cerf.net> duncan@nic.cerf.net (Ray Duncan) writes:
- In article <BEVAN.93Jan22131846@panda.cs.man.ac.uk> bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >In article <1jk69lINNhjo@news.cerf.net> duncan@nic.cerf.net (Ray Duncan) writes:
- > [ LMI FORTH has files & blocks, floating point ... etc. ]
- > they've [LMI users] had access to these capabilities, if they
- > needed them, for many years.
- >
- [ fine, but unless these features become standard, your programs
- are forever tied to one FORTH system ]
-
- I must admit I don't quite see your point.
-
- Well I must admit I don't understand how you don't see the point :-) So,
- all I can do is reword what I've already written :-
-
- If you write embedded code, or are otherwise not worried about
- portability you are free to use whatever features of your FORTH system
- you want. However, if you are worried about portability, using said
- extensions ties you to that system until (if ever) those extensions
- become standard or a defacto standard.
-
- bevan
-