Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umn-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!smith From: smith@umn-cs.UUCP (Richard Smith) Newsgroups: net.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth-83 Standard - (nf) Message-ID: <413@umn-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 21:02:45 EST Article-I.D.: umn-cs.413 Posted: Mon Feb 6 21:02:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 03:29:21 EST Sender: notes@umn-cs.UUCP Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN Lines: 29 #R:cwruecmp:-93600:umn-cs:14200008:000:1101 umn-cs!smith Feb 6 12:23:00 1984 ['] vs. ' In point of fact, ['] is a Chuck Mooreism that got dropped out of the original Fig implementation. So, returning to ['] makes some sense historically. Now let me get worked up...I'm sick of the proliferation of Forth 'standards'. I attempted to convert from Fig-Forth to Forth-79. I almost finished, though I still ought to fix some foolishness involving double precision signs, I guess. Am I ready to convert again?? Heck No! Why would I convert, anyway? Because that would let me share software with others. So, the wonderful 'standardization' people are making it HARDER for me to share. OK, I give up. (well, maybe). As far as I'm concerned, the only reasonable basis for a voluntary standard such as these Forth standards is the existence of a public domain version that we can all share. That's how the Fig version got to be so 'standard' in the first place. The only hope I see for Forth-83 is that someone has offered me a public domain copy for my Z80. By the way, if I ever get it I'm going to post the sources to 'net.sources'. Rick.