Re: Anyone read about that electronic eye chip?

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From: Jeff Best
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <8ebpim$9bf$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk>, Nick Ray
<spam@spam.more.spam> writes
>j wrote in message ...
>
>>   Too bad that FORTH is such an awful anachronistic
>>   language. Nobody thinks in stacks ...  :-)
>
>Plenty do, especially if they cut their teeth on assembly language
>programming. My HP-16C calculator is stack-based (RPN) and anyone with a
>PostScript printer is really using Forth on a daily basis, they just don't
>know it :o)
>
>

In the same sense of "using", anyone booting a PC with Plug'n'Pray is
using the Forth interpreter in the BIOS to handle the Plug'n'Play
configuration, but the PC is clearly an example of anti-thinking...
-- 
Jeff Best (jeffb@jtbest.demon.co.uk)
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From: Jeff Best <jeffb@jtbest.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Anyone read about that electronic eye chip?
Date: 2000/04/30
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