Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:08:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS Message-ID: <200109060008.f8608SO04636@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" <daniel.sobral@tcoip.com.br> of "Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:55:16 -0300." <3B967514.1040508@tcoip.com.br>
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> > 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. Just for the record; I spent a lot of time interviewing small script interpreters for the job. I was unable to find anything even remotely close (and they were all other Forths anyway). Forth wasn't a really popular choice, but it was that or nothing at all. 8( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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