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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:19:44 +1000
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On 10/04/2025 8:40 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> In article <f7a591a1dc38e555ac1aecce6c59bd3bf195d09c@i2pn2.org>,
> dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/04/2025 9:28 pm, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I'm with Anton Ertl here. If you have a clear idea what has to be done,
>>> formulate it and send in a proposal. (But I'm as guilty as you
>>> regards other matters ...).
>>
>> Why must it be done?  To please you?  If the committee is satisfied with
>> the status quo nothing need be done.  And that's what you're seeing.
> 
> You must do it, because you are not satisfied with the standard.

Chuck Moore might beg to differ.

'Matters of fact or truth or beauty cannot be voted on.  They speak for
 themselves.'

If one sees truth of what's been said, one acts on it.  To wait for
authority to tell one what to do indicates only subservience.

> <insults deleted>

I'm not aware anything was deleted.