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Date:      Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:32:42 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FICL 
Message-ID:  <199812080032.QAA01279@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:27:57 %2B0900." <366BC9CD.304D2049@newsguy.com> 

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> I just learned about the addition of FICL to FreeBSD, I decided to
> resubscribe (for a while, at least) to -current just to discuss this.
> I should have expected: I had to distance myself from both FreeBSD and
> Forth for a while and look what happens! :-)

8)

> Ok, my two cents, though I still haven't read all the archive:

You might want to get in touch with John Saunders (is that right?) as 
he's been tickling a few things for us.

> > > whether there's much we can strip from the core wordset; I'll leave
> > > that for the FORTH guruen to argue over.  At 22k (plus whatever it
> > 
> > As I said above, we probably can strip CORE-EXT and SEARCH - I wouldn't
> > touch the CORE itself, however.
> 
> I have yet to check out how the source is being handled, but I here is
> my possibly irrelevant comments. I'll strive to get up to date before
> adding any more cents to the vending machine, though... :-)
> 
> CORE can be stripped. There is a lot of words in ANS' CORE that are
> reduntant. Here, CORE represents more legacy than anything else.
> 
> But I'd like this system to remain ANS in it's FreeBSD distribution.

I think that this is a good point.  And in fact I think it's probably 
worthwhile keeping the runtime ANS unless it's *really* hurting us for 
space (which it isn't right now).

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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