Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!well!jax From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: type checking Summary: You Asked! Keywords: C-Forth, Unix, Bradley Message-ID: <7162@well.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 03:51:27 GMT References: <8808121826.AA23206@jade.berkeley.edu> <1575@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <504@smegma.UUCP> <2654@sugar.uu.net> Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 19 In article <2654@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >In article <1457@ficc.uu.net> I wrote: >>Neither does the Forth language nor any Forth environment to my knowledge >>adequately support the development of millions of lines of code by hundreds > ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ >>of programmers, which is the scale of the activities at this mail address. > > >What Forth environment even supports the *concurrent* editing of a few hundred >thousand lines of code by a dozen programmers, let alone millions by hundreds? The name of the Forth environment you are looking for is "Unix". Email Mitch Bradley of Sun Microsystems for his quite sofistycated C Forth, wmb@sun.com. *********** jax@well jax@chariot : FOO ( ---) ." Ask a tougher one!" ; JAX on GEnie