Re: common place apps in forth available, for example irc, or multi chat, browser, etc?

Op Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:31:32 -0800 (PST) schreef gavino:

> On Feb 9, 10:15 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.
> 
> 
> I think copywrite of 'look and feel' is so dumb.
> Once you have forth on a PDA, it seems like many apps can come along.
> Do people put forth on a PDA like a blackberry and then have more
> power?  Or does the connectivity then fail?

There is a nice Forth for the Palm, I liked it.
Until I dropped my Palm III some years ago ;-(
Google for Quartus Forth

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