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Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 1997 05:23:48 -0500 (EST)
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] All of them nice ideas
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> Although forth isn't widely recognized by the programming
> community, it can now run on the whole x86 line of computers.  
> There  are more than a few public domain forth systems in
> existence too.  The problem with forth comes in two flavors.
> First, there's not a whole lot of good beginner's documentation
> or teaching material for the language.
> Second, most of the forth systems in existence have specialized
> in certain areas and excluded others.
> As an example, f83 and f-pc short math.
> Not that it's impossible to program well in math for
> these packages, it's just that the authors of f83 didn't like math.
> By extension, f-pc needed Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth
> Programming to recover from inherited deficiencies placed or not placed
> in f83.  forth79 had more facilities for this in terms of a wider ranging
> word set, (words in forth are commands).
> f-pc allows compilation of .com files from working applications
> so these can run as stand-alone products if desired.

Are you proposing that OpenDOS sources be ported to forth?
:o)

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