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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels
In-Reply-To: <199810302013.MAA01772@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 30, 98 12:13:09 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:47:20 +0100 (CET)
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According to Mike Smith:
> > > (Yes, I agree that Forth would be more powerful.  Compromises...)
> > 
> > Ah, well. I guess I'm proposing Forth so strongly because it's so powerful
> > and compact, and fast... and so incredibly extensible when you need it. No
> > need to reinvent the same things each time, writing yet another
> > incompatible language...
> > 
> > I think this is important opportunity - let's not miss it without good
> > reasons... As I said, there are people among us who can even write small
> > enough Forth kernel for our purposes.
> 
> I have no desire to miss it.  Give me a compact Forth interpreter that 
> links against libstand and you'll be seeing it everywhere Real Soon.

Eeep! Umm... what exactly does this mean? I mean... I don't know anyone
that knows forth... lots of people know sh. And a logical special
language (whic resembles sh and the other script languages) is not 
real hard to learn either. Why mess it up and get forth in there? And
to do what exactly?

  /Mikael

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