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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: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:51:02 +1000
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On 27/04/2025 7:36 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:
> On 26-04-2025 04:37, dxf wrote:
>> On 26/04/2025 2:34 am, Hans Bezemer wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Yeah, I have helped to make a proposal for PLACE and +PLACE - which never even made it to the voting stage.
>>
>> It's a nice symmetry.  OTOH the remaining vendors use APPEND and why should they change?
>>
> 
> Yes, it has symmetry with ! and +!, TO and +TO - that's why I like it (plus APPEND is already taken in 4tH for signalling file append mode ;-)
> 
> Why should they change it? Well, it has just become *THE STANDARD.*
> 
> Poor man's solution : +PLACE APPEND ;
> Hans' solution:       AKA APPEND +PLACE
> ANS 2012 solution:    SYNONYM +PLACE APPEND

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