barriers to FORTH acceptance
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Lloyd R. Prentice wrote:
> I can think of at least six problems with Forth. [...]
It's funny that these problems you see can be sumed up as one thing:
proprietary software made its extraordinary extensibility
into a feature that *fragmented* the FORTH community
instead of tying it together.
I formalized this phenomenon (that holds for FORTH and LISP alike)
in an article recently published:
Metaprogramming and Free Availability of Sources
http://www.tunes.org/~fare/articles/ll99/index.en.html
I wish that FORTHers and LISPers would hear the lesson and take measures
so as to have their legacy triumph over the horrors of unextensible languages.
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