John Doty wrote:
> Robert Miller wrote:
....
>> In any event, what has the source language got to do with it?
>
> That's my question. It has been asserted by a number of people here that
> Forth code is rarely published because most is proprietary. But why
> should that be language dependent? There's plenty of published code in
> other languages, why not Forth?
It isn't language-dependent in a technical sense, but in a cultural
sense. Forth is most popular in commercial situations because that's
where its advantages are most visible. It is less popular in academic
settings where a lot of publi****ng goes on. Also, for many years, folks
in the Forth community would rather write Yet Another Forth and publish
that than publish application code. So, cultural issues on both sides.
Cheers,
Elizabeth
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