Re: common place apps in forth available, for example irc, or multi

John Doty wrote:
> gavino wrote:
> > I have seen that forth can do the things c can.  Are there common apps
> > for linux such as a IRC chat client, a web browser, a multi chatter
> > like pidgin? x-terminal? things like that?
>
>  From its very beginning, Forth has never had much success at "me too"
> programming. Its successes have mainly been in places where other
> techniques have either failed or not even been tried.

That's not entirely correct. There was a Lotus 123 clone with added
functionality that was written in kforth (not the kforth you sometimes
see posted about these days). I think it was called VP-plus, and it
was "better" as a product but defeated by legal efforts based on look
and feel. It's just that you didn't hear much about the Forth side of
clone efforts like that. It mwould certainly be interesting to see its
source...

Along those lines, I have sometimes thought that a lookalike for the
"pipedream" utility in the Z88, an early PDA, might be worth doing in
Forth. That way you'd get a useful small tool., particularly if you
gave it scripting features (it snarfed those from a separate Basic).
P.M.Lawrence.