Re: A Brief Look at History

In article <20080312170714.365094eb.jethomas5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jonah Thomas  <jethomas5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>
>If he keeps optimising, of course he'll keep starting over rather than
>maintain compatibility with inferior approaches. Kind of like Chuck
>does.

ciforth can be considered an optimized version of figForth.
It is possible to go on changing something bits by bits, and end up
with something completely different. Compare mammals and amoeba's.

The advantage of this way is that I can compare with a previous version
and make sure that is better in a way that I wanted. Then I can compare
with the do***entation of the previous version and make sure the change
is fully do***ented. In a product system an approach like this is often
liked better than Chucks way.

Groetjes Albert

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