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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: Forth "Pre-Compiler" (long)
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Date: 9 Aug 88 17:29:33 GMT
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In article <1563@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes:
}>seem to get along just fine with only an editor -- could it be that Forth is
}>so easy to test and debug that no expensive development aids are necessary?
}>On top of this, the Forth compiler, i.e. the outer interpreter, can be
}>modified to one's own needs, so the compiler itself becomes the most important
}>development tool, ala the "integrated environment" so many other compiler
}>vendors are promoting of late.)
}>
}If I were being equally glib(-:) I might ask, how come if forth is so much
}easier to program in, have forth programmers not managed to produce these
}essential tools in and for forth?

Let's see now, Laxen & Perry F83 has:
	editor
	decompiler
	assembler
	debugger
	multitasker
	print spooler
	listing printer
and of course,
	compiler/interpreter

Sounds like *more* than most so-called integrated environments offer!  No
fancy windowing/menu system, but what do you expect from 26K ? :-)
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