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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Real-time systems:  Windows-NT or QNX
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I don't know what Forth Inc has been doing lately, but when I was using
Forth extensively, over ten years ago, the Forth Inc. implementation was
by far the hardest to develop code for. It had only 3 significant characters
for variable names, and no guard codes for control structures so very often
the only indication of a syntax error was having the O/S crash at compile
time. Fig-Forth was a much more professional design, more consistent, for
all it was public domain.

I was quite distressed when many of PolyForth's misfeatures made it into
the standard instead of the de-facto Fig interfaces.
-- 
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