Bruce McFarling wrote:
>
>Duke Normandin wrote:
>
>> Or is there no future in the desktop market?
>
>That is subject to lots of speculation, but if there is, there's no
>reason that Forth couldn't be part of it. However, it would not be
>with a ForthOS type system.
All it takes to give Forth a future in the desktop market
is to make Forth one of the front-end laguages in the Gnu
Compiler Collection (GCC) [ http://gcc.gnu.org/
].
If anyone wants to see a real-world example, keep an eye
on FreeBASIC. It is on-track to being included in the
Collection, and thus to being a standard feature of most
Linux distributions. I predict a huge surge in popularity
for FreeBASIC when that happens.
--
Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com/>
