From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 13: 6:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CDB337B405; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:06:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.139.244.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.139.244]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA07297; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B9685D0.40E8E097@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:06:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Daniel Capo Sobral , Mike Smith , Kazutaka YOKOTA , dcs@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > > I myself questioned the wisdom of using Forth at the time, and Jordan > > simply replied I was free to find a more popular language with a freely > > available interpreter that would fit in as small a space as FICL did. > > there is a Basic interpeter that fits in 1024 bytes that could be used > if extended to know about files :-) That was probably funnier inside your head... it may even have stayed funny, had you left it there. Now some damn fool will go and implement it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message