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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gerry Jackson <do-not-use@swldwa.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: QUIT and ABORT Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:33:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <102b7vo$1q1q1$1@dont-email.me> References: <87bjtn2hct.fsf@gmail.com> <1009s09$c9ih$1@dont-email.me> <4481f037e7bf4a8d7faa59640a9dcfac01c42226@i2pn2.org> <100b23g$g4a6$1@dont-email.me> <5ddd51973a3f163595605432f497ac65a5ed1336@i2pn2.org> <100c51f$sfr3$1@dont-email.me> <732e53d829317e715612f6941a69b62e7d38ac15@i2pn2.org> <100f2hm$1itg8$1@dont-email.me> <5b4885b76e5d683a9a55c51f6905d50aa86192ac@i2pn2.org> <100s31p$jh5t$1@dont-email.me> <956c844426013a9d8039bebd7f7c0a31@www.novabbs.com> <2025May24.171216@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:33:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c4ba454da2478a47ab137c7e90bd49e2"; logging-data="1902401"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lmzXsmZmrOkb0LVPOVmjdCgmyHRsuiBY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:PJvo6tiAvLs+xDysojHfnxdw1cU= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <2025May24.171216@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> On 24/05/2025 16:12, Anton Ertl wrote: > There is a test suite (maintained by Gerry Jackson) that tests a > system for standards conformance, but as Dijkstra said, tests can only > prove the presence of bugs, not their absence. I lack the time and interest to carry on maintaining the test suite and, as I reported to the Forth 200X committee last September, would like to pass it on to someone else. As the committee has failed to identify anybody are there any voluteers? I presume it would need committee approval. Funnily enough it seems to be the most popular Forth software I've ever written, currrently 76 stars and 16 forks. There must be a lot of Forths out there! -- Gerry