"I had reservations about ANSI. I worried that it would be a disaster and not merely a dubious advantage. All of my fears of the standard and none of the advant

"I had reservations about ANSI. I worried that it would be a disaster and not merely a dubious advantage. All of my fears of the standard and none of the advantages of the standard have come to pass. Any spirit of innovation has been thoroughly quelched. Underground Forths are still needed. I said I thought the standard should be a publication standard but they wanted an execution standard." "There is a problem that I first saw at iTV. It was the first time I have been in the presence of a Forth project that I wasn't contributing to. I saw how other programmers use Forth. They don't always get it right." "Besides stacks plus colon definitions there is something else. There needs to be another book written about writing good code." -- Chuck Moore, 1997