Re: The Promise of Forth

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:32:26 -0500, kenney@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> The number of failed IT projects in any particular language seems to 
>depends largely on the number of IT projects attempted in that language. 
>The failure of large IT projects is it seems largely down to the users 
>not being able to specify them correctly. At least that is what seems to 
>have happened with large government programs in the UK.

Les Hatton's work also seems to indicate that project failure and 
reliability are unrelated to programming language. Im my experience,
large project success or failure is determined by the project
management, and failure mostly to weak project management.

Stephen


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