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I wrote a Forth for OS/2 long long ago out of spite. I was told that you absolutely could not write assembler programs for OS/2. So, direct threaded native code
by mikewarot 5y ago
I wrote a Forth for OS/2 long long ago out of spite. I was told that you absolutely could not write assembler programs for OS/2. So, direct threaded native code forth is what I did. I open sourced it because that was the social norm back then, Brian Matthewson came along and wrote a great Manual for it, and all was well. I got some nice feedback, and it felt good to help out others.
Why wouldn't you share something cool? I know that there are some people who have the wrong attitude, in extreme, about opens source... and I'm glad I haven't encountered them.
I've set limits in the past. Forth/2 never dealt with GUI stuff. I didn't want to go there, so it didn't. I have no problem making arbitrary decisions like that in the future. However... if someone else wants to write that code, why not? Forks are easy these days in the world of Git.