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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Real-time systems:  Windows-NT or QNX
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In article <tsikesCxtpK5.ICM@netcom.com>,
Terry Sikes <tsikes@netcom.com> wrote:
> Would you care to address the issue of Forth's reputation as an
> unmaintainable, write-only language?  ;)

I've maintained unmaintainable write-only code in lots of languages, and
if I had to maintain unmaintainable write-only code in any language I'd
choose Forth.

Forth isn't inherently write-only, and there's no language out there that
is the least bit difficult to write unmaintainable code in.

On the other hand, Forth doesn't seem to scale that well.
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