baccala@eng.umd.edu (Brent W. Baccala) (04/29/91)
Since my experience with FORTH has been limited to public-domain systems and those I have designed myself, I have long assumed that commerical FORTHs provided some additional built-in functions unfamiliar to me. I assumed one of these functions to be networking, but have not seen the subject mentioned in BASIS 15. Do commerical FORTHs provide network support? Although many FORTHs are used for embedded control systems where network isn't (currently) a concern, the rapid growth of LANs and distributed systems seem to indicate a need for this issue to be addressed in an ANS, albeit optionally. Should the FORTH ANS include an optional word set providing basic network functions, such as name resolution, connection establishment, stream I/O, datagram I/O, etc? -- -bwb Brent W. Baccala baccala@eng.umd.edu
Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) (04/29/91)
> Should the FORTH ANS include an optional word set providing basic network > functions, such as name resolution, connection establishment, stream I/O, > datagram I/O, etc? Regardless of the desireability of such functions, I believe that the vast majority of the Forth community has very little, if any, experience with such networking issues. Consequently, I think it unlikely in the extreme that an attempt to standardize Forth access to network functions would be worthwhile at this stage of the ANS Forth effort. Mitch Bradley, wmb@Eng.Sun.COM