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From: Ted Holden
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1986 13:36
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1986 13:36
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Rich Kulawiec writes: >In summary (speaking for myself, not Don), I strongly recommend that you avoid >Forth. If I were you, I'd resort to using assebly language first; you'll >have a better chance of producing debuggable, robust, and maintainable code. That's telling it like it is. My sentiments upon reading "Starting Forth" and unfortunately having to deal with it to some extent on a first generation 68K oem machine were that any programmer who would WANT to program in Forth would have to be a masochist, and any manager who would ALLOW him to would have to be crazy.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site imsvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!ut-sally!seismo!elsie!imsvax!ted From: ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Forth Message-ID: <489@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 08:36:06 EST Article-I.D.: imsvax.489 Posted: Fri Jan 3 08:36:06 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jan-86 01:19:31 EST Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 11