Re: advantages of forth over other languages

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:54:14 -0700, "slava@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<slava@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>How come there are no free, well-debugged, well-do***ented libraries
>for Forth which perform the tasks you describe, such as text
>processing, web application development, GUIs, etc? If it's so easy,
>why do some people in this very newsgroup admit to using Perl for text
>processing, Tcl/Tk for GUIs, and so on?

Because they cost money to develop, debug and do***ent.

Many of the libraries you want actually exist. The're just not free of
cost.

Stephen


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