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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Back & Forth - Co-routines
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 08:43:12 +1100
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On 7/02/2025 9:20 pm, minforth wrote:
> Where does this self-limiting backwardness come from?
> 
> Virtually all modern embedded devices communicate with
> their outside world, and multitasking comes naturally.
> On the software side, closures can be a very helpful
> tool for communication and task management.
> 
> So virtually all modern programming languages support
> closures (albeit with subtle nuances). I think a modern
> Forth should not be closed to modern programming concepts.
> DOS is finally history.

Or the need is largely manufactured and languages copy each other
so as to appear 'modern and fully-featured'.  This occurred even in
the days of DOS when PC magazines reviewed and compared compilers.
Vendors knew very well that the more frills they could list, the
more likely the sale.  Never mind the actual utility.  This is, of
course, true for all consumer products.

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