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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Hello?
Message-ID: <754@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 17:00:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.754
Posted: Fri Jul 17 17:00:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:08:35 EDT
References: <1392@crash.CTS.COM> <2460@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Summary: e-mail, please!

In article <2460@tekgvs.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Tom Almy) writes:
>In article <1392@crash.CTS.COM> billk@crash.CTS.COM (Bill Kelly) writes:
>>Hello.  I was just curious as to how many people read comp.lang.forth?  
>>How about a head-count?
>
>Count me in.

Please, folks; polls should always be conducted by e-mail, not by followups.
If you want to announce that you read this newsgroup, mail that statement to
Bill and let him post the results.  Otherwise we're just wasting so much
bandwidth.

>(I think the problem is that UNIX and Forth are exact oposite environments).

That didn't stop me from writing a Forth semicompiler% in C under UNIX.  I
found it really convenient for executing system calls without having to wrap a
C program around them.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
% "semicompiler" because it's somewhere between a compiler and interpretne
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