# five (four? six?) concatenative languages

## stevan apter — 2004-09-10 23:50:07

    i've lost all my mail for the month of july, including

    the discussion on the project of compiling short papers

    on joy's kith and kin.

    what's the status of the project?  who's compiling the

    results?  which papers are complete, or nearly so?

    we need a book.

    we need some compelling applications to illustrate

    the power of this type of programming.

    factor is just a tremendous achievement.  my impression

    is that slava has taken his language to the point where

    it should be considered a serious candidate for "real"

    applications.  the only component i haven't seen him

    address is gui.  how does the factor programmer create

    a window-based application?

## William Tanksley, Jr — 2004-09-11 03:51:59

    On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:50:07 -0400, stevan apter <sa@...> wrote:

     > what's the status of the project?  who's compiling the

    > results?  which papers are complete, or nearly so?

     My paper on Forth is hardly started -- I keep starting, running out of

    time, restarting, and trying again. I'm busy.

    -Billy

## phimvt@lurac.latrobe.edu.au — 2004-09-17 03:50:36

    On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, William Tanksley, Jr wrote:

    [..]

    > My paper on Forth is hardly started -- I keep starting, running out of

    > time, restarting, and trying again. I'm busy.

    >

    > -Billy

    Thanks for trying. There is no great hurry, really.

    All the best, and don't let work get you down.

      - Manfred