On Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:48:53 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:

> Mr.Pelc woke us all up to the NG comp.lang.forth.
>
> Just been browsing there, and anyone needing an excuse to NOT use FORTH
> just needs to browse there to discover that the world of FORTH is a
> complete mess of incompatible versions.
>
> It would seem that for every programmer asserting himself as a FORTH
> expert, there is yet another version of FORTH!
>
> With my professional (now retired) hat on, FORTH is a joke in the world
> of educated computer professionals,
> but with my amateur hat on, it is great fun to dabble with
> implementations of interpreters, whether tokenised, lists of addresses,
> or blocks ofsubroutine calls, and for the latter, in the case of the
> RPi, for most primitives there's no need to save R30 (in 64 bit mode)
> when called by BL!

I have the perfect solution: you like it, then use it; you don't like it,
you don't use it.

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