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

John Doty wrote:
> 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.

Then you've effectively surrendered the point. We DO know whether that
software could have been successful - it was (I've actually used it
myself). It was precisely because it was a superior product that the
lawyers were brought in. "But in the end, it wasn't" is wrong - in the
end, it was litigated out of the market. P.M.Lawrence.