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

pml540114@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> John Doty wrote:
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>>pml540114@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>John Doty wrote:
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>>>>gavino wrote:
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>>>>>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...
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>>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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> 
> 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.

Messing him up with FACTS. unfair ;)