Re: The Promise of Forth

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Bernd Paysan wrote:

>
> Duke Normandin 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. It is truely
sick!
>
> Hey, this is a debate club, if you want to watch debates (often the same
> over and over again ;-), watch here. This is not the place where people
> write useful Forth programs, this is not "the" community. A number of
> posters here are deliberately trying to provoke discussions (they are
not
> as awful as other usenet trolls ;-), or at least try to provoke
thoughts.
> For simple reasons, those who are best to provoke discussions have the
> longest threads, and therefore most of the content here.

I'm beginning to see yours and Jonah's point. I jumped too quickly to the
conclusion that c.l.f. was all that was left of the Forth culture and
civilization, and as such, must have been "the Forth community". Mea
culpa! Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa!
-- 
Duke Normandin
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