From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 17: 2: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F7937B403 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8608SO04636; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:08:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200109060008.f8608SO04636@mass.dis.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" of "Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:55:16 -0300." <3B967514.1040508@tcoip.com.br> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:08:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > > 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