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Re: A Brief Look at History

by Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> Mar 23, 2008 at 10:21 PM

William James wrote:

>Forth programmers who don't want to use locals are
>insecure and are afraid of anything whose workings
>they don't fully comprehend.  They only feel safe when
>they are manipulating the stack and programming something
>as primitive as a flush-controller for a toilet and storing their
>code in blocks on a floppy disk.
>
>They want Forth to be an ultra low-level, crude,
>write-only language.  They should be ignored by
>programmers who have any degree of sophistication,
>and, as I said before, should be given their own play-pen:
>comp.lang.15bittoiletflushingforth.

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Re: A Brief Look at History
Guy Macon <http://www.  2008-03-23 22:21:05 

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