Re: [colorforth] TCP State Engine

[<maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:10:48 -0700
>From: "Samuel A. Falvo II" <kc5tja@xxxxxxxx>  
>Subject: Re: [colorforth] TCP State Engine  
>To: colorforth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:53 pm, maslicke@xxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:
>> Is this more floundering speculation, or did actually have
>> something to say about TCP?
>
>What I'm about to write is basically a message of support 
for BOTH sides 
>of this issue.

Please do not attempt to speak for me.

>
>HTTP is basically, as most Internet protocols, a refinement 
of Telnet.  
>And Telnet is itself nothing more than the most basic 
application of 
>TCP.  It follows, then, that a tool analogous to wget can be 
implemented 
>in Forth in as little as 5 blocks,

I don't follow, did you pull 5 blocks from a hat?
>> Right, Forth is not appropriate for anything but the most
>> trivial applications.
>
>I couldn't agree more with this.

So you mean agree that a Forth Web Browser can not compete. 
This is the context I responded to.

> Fortunately for us, most problems are 
>quite trivial,

 as long as you let go of certain basic assumptions and 
>presuppositions 

Please don't attempt to state my assumptions.

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