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

pml540114@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 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...

So we don't actually know whether that software could have been 
successful. But in the end, it wasn't. That's the best you can come up 
with? I rest my case.

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