ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (01/05/90)
Category 3, Topic 3 Message 137 Fri Dec 22, 1989 R.BERKEY [Robert] at 07:02 PST JW via GS> >The tools should be there to create 'your' application on 'your' >processor, and the resultant code transport, unaltered to 'my' >processor. LB>...the ANSI Technical Committee is...making every attempt to keep LB>existing code compatible with ANS Forth. ZE> Maybe once the ANS Forth answer is in, loading source onto ZE> different Forth will be commonplace. Portability is at the lowest level in BASIS10 that it has ever been. Don't ask me to put X3.J14 in a contract to write a Standard Program. I can't take the responsibility for my code working on a 3's excess machine architecture when the only thing I know about that is it's name. This year, portability is out, the virtual machine is out, vendor fiefdoms are in. Robert Berkey ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated program. Report problems to: 'uunet!willett!dwp' or 'willett!dwp@gateway.sei.cmu.edu'