Re: The Promise of Forth

On Mar 24, 10:41 pm, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Having read this thread from its beginning, it sweep over this newbie
that
> the current Forth community - such as it is - is _not_ a co-operative
> society, but rather a chronically argumentative one.

Don't confuse this for a Forth community ... its a Usenet newsgroup.
You ask a question and you get:
(1) someone saying you are terrible to be thinking of the problem in
those terms
(2) an answer that does not work from someone who knows less than you
(3) a 542 post argument rehashing who did what to whom at some obscure
meeting in 1982
(4) four intriguing ideas that have nothing to do with your question
but are interesting nevertheless and
(5) if you luck out, a useful answer to your question ... sometimes
none, and sometimes five excellent onces written at almost exactly the
same time some two days after the 542 post re-argument has died down.

When you find a Usenet newsgroup that looks like it functions as a
community, its because a community exists (or several do and they find
it worth their while to jointly maintain the newsgroup as a common
bazaar) and members of the community keep acting like members of a
community when they are on the newsgroup.