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On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 8:22:52 AM UTC-7, Zbig wrote:
> > But Fig is directly responsible for where Forth is today. Washing
> > its hands of fig-Forth (it had served its purpose we were told),
> > Fig found itself a new role - to facilitate and develop a Forth
> > Standard through the FST (Forth Standards Team). FST gave us
> > Forth-79 and Forth-83. Forth-83 was in turn the basis document
> > of ANS-Forth.
> The good thing about Forth standards is that there are so many
> to choose from. :D
In the 90s I proposed Absolute Forth, a simple defining language to
describe Forth variants.
The idea was to make is so automated tools could convert library
functions from one variant to
another. At the time the idea went over like a lead balloon, probably because
it used local variables to define stack operations ... : OVER { a
b - - a b a } a b a ; ...
which Forth Fundimentalists strongly objected to.
jrh
Reality is an information process, set in montion and sustained by
God for a purpose.
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