Re: The Promise of Forth

Duke Normandin wrote:

> Please give this newbie some hope for Forth!

Forth is not like a tree, which needs water to live and for which you can
have some hopes. It is more like mathematics: The standard is written and
if Forth works for your project, you can use it. And because of the simple
basic concepts, it is even possible to write your own implementation, if
you need it, unlike e.g. for C++, which needs many man years of work.

And I think there are more active Forth programmers than posters in this
newsgroup, maybe because of too many non-technical postings like this one.

> Let's resurrect FIG!! Can we do that together? Can we crank out a
> "generic Forth" that we can all live with to be the new FIG flagship?

There is already an ongoing process for the next Forth:

http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html

If you want to change something, you can participate in the RfD/CfV
process.

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Frank Buss, fb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://www.it4-systems.de