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In article <SPACKMAN.92Oct14140403@disco-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de> stephen@acm.org writes:
> And languages like C that are constantly forcing you up against
> the inane 32-character identifier limit...

Geeze, you're *REALLY* hate the old 8-, 7-, 6- and even 5- character limits
imposed by linkers on older operating systems, and go totally bonkers trying
to deal with Polyforth (it just kept *three* characters plus length (just to
confuse you), so most programs tended to look like:

	: foo dup rot fcp @ 93 + sta get @+ over 77 std +! cls sta ;

I don't know why Herman is so down on Forth. It seems to fulfill most of his
requirements admirably. You can even have words like :-> and -8'D (punk rocker
wearing glasses laughing out loud in profile).
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