jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr) (09/17/88)
In article <504@smegma.UUCP> mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot) writes: >In article <1457@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer#) writes: >>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. > >One of my clients has a data acquisition package for the IBM PC written in >Forth. 14 megabytes of source, or approximately 100,000 lines of Forth code. >The project has been running for six years. The code is VERY maintainable, >due to the self-discipline of the programmers involved. The project has been >worked on by about a dozen different people over six years, some who were short- >term, and others who have been there the whole time. Good for you, marc! Big Forth projects? $1/4 mill ~ in JForth starting up monday. Not big, just medium. ************ jax@well " No, dammit, I will *NOT* do it in "C"!" jax@chariot " Would you ask Nureyev to tapdance?" JAX on GEnie " Don't answer that ..."