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Date:Mon Sep 30 03:39:11 1993 
Subject:Re: Threaded Interpretive Languages 
From:Mark Kraml 
Volume-ID:930930.01 

Jack Woehr (jax@Cygnus.COM) wrote:

: 	Interesting in this regard is to compare Forth to Postcript,
: the latter being more oriented towards symbolic computing, yet
: differing from Forth in essentially only three respects:

: 	1) Addition of the /symbol data type.

: 	2) Metachar parsing forcing forth "+", for example, to be renamed
: 	Postscript "plus".

: 	3) Temporary heap objects and garbage collection added to PS.

: 		=jax=

i am still climbing that steep curve to forthdom, but i did a bit of 
postscript before. i was wondering how the operator "bind" appears in 
forth, i guess its one of those words i have yet to learn about.

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