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- From: duncan@nic.cerf.net (Ray Duncan)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: Recent FORTHs' guts (was: Documenting)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:19:28 GMT
- Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
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- References: <1993Jan26.141606.12503@exu.ericsson.se> <1k42ueINNj90@news.cerf.net> <1993Jan27.161520.15484@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.161520.15484@crd.ge.com> eaker@ukulele.crd.ge.com (Chuck Eaker) writes:
- >
- >I have been told that LMI does not plan to support the new
- >standard. Is that correct? If so, would you care to discuss
- >the reasons?
- >
-
- I have gone through several changes of heart about this.
- Originally I was an enthusiastic supporter of X3J14. After
- the committee was invaded by the FIGgies like Berkey and Shaw
- and began to diverge radically from the existing common practice
- and Forth-83, I became exasperated and lost interest. We have
- a large body of existing code of our own and a lot of users who
- count on us for a stable development environment; I couldn't
- see any sense in wantonly breaking all that source code and
- cluttering up the language with bizarre word sets (if you've
- followed the X3J14 process from the beginning and read all the
- technical proposals, you know what I'm talking about).
-
- Now that X3J14 has returned to its senses and most of the
- really silly stuff has been trimmed back out of the dpANS,
- we're leaning strongly toward supporting ANS Forth. But the
- final decision will have to await the final standard!
-
- Ray Duncan, LMI
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