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Date:Mon Oct 5 00:34:44 1993 
Subject:Re: Threaded Interpretive Languages 
From:Mike Haas 
Volume-ID:931009.02 

In article <jax.749324550@darkstar.cygnus.com> jax@Cygnus.COM (Jack Woehr) writes:
>pop@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Robin Popplestone) writes:
>
>>The zeitgeist works in mysterious ways...
>
>	Ain't it the truth, Robin!? For instance, it's pretty obvious that
>Forth and C were invented primarily to solve one and the same problem,
>which was to transform the archaic, lugubrious human-oriented syntax of
>the then-extant languages into a more machine-oriented, low-level compromise
>syntax. 

JAX, you know that Forth was developed to control telescopes, and
C was designed to support an operating system.  Those
sound like widely disparate problems to me!