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Re: FYI: Re: MuP21 Programming Manual (fwd)


->>On page 104, he says, "In fact, I'm designing my own language today."
->>He says Forth programmers would hate it.  Has he said anything more
->>about
->>it?  Is OK what he was talking about?  If it's OK, _I'm_ not hostile to
->>it, and I can program in Forth.
->>
->>If anybody can help answer the above, I'd really appreciate it.
->>
->>--Andrew Sieber
->>kd4jtv@bbs.wa4yse.ampr.org
->
->No he is not talking about OK.  Although OK explored some of his
->ideas about this.
->
->He often talks about a stripped down Forth.  Chuck thinks that ANS
->Forth resulted in a very confusing thing.  Chuck likes simplicity.
->In my opinion the closest thing that he has published to his
->latest ideas about his current language is the F21 instruction set,
->or his assembler for MuP21.
->
->He likes -IF and -UNTIL which use carry instead of 0.  And IF and
->UNTIL don't remove arguments like normal Forth.  He doesn't need
->a lot of stack space or most of the stuff added to Forth over
->the last twenty years.
->
->As he once said, "What you take away is more important than what
->you add."
->
->Jeff Fox

I've seen cmForth on the web somewhere; is this what you're referring
to??  Also, Pygmy is descended from cmForth.