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

On Feb 10, 2:15 pm, pml540...@[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...
>
> 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.

The software was VP-Planner, the company was Paperback Software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperback_Software_International_Ltd.