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

On Feb 10, 4:23 am, pml540...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> John Doty wrote:
> > 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...
>
> > 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.

unbelievable that they can say "no you can't make something because it
reminds us of our product"  IMagine fi they said to japan " you can't
make cars, they look like our cars" BS!!