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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
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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.

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