[comp.lang.forth] Selling Forth to management

wmb@SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) (01/21/90)

My presentation at the 1988 Rochester Forth Conference dealt with this issue
(how to sell Forth to management) with the example of the Sun SPARCstation 1
firmware.  In a nutshell, the trick was to develop a large amount of
personal credibility with management using the usual methods (hard work,
dependability, etc).  Then when the opportunity arose to do something in
Forth that REALLY was better done in Forth than in C (firmware) arose,
I jumped on the opportunity, and prepared myself to take the heat and
fight the political battles for the next 2 years.

The bottom line: it's not easy.

Mitch