... was that? However its current usage, presupposes an answer. To say you saw something which was unknown to you, shouldn't   necessarily mean it was out of this world. Yet this is the paradox enshrined in this re-tokened language. We don't know. How often do we allow ourselves room for the thought. So often language allow us to claim knowledge of the unknown. This or ...

... was that? However its current usage, presupposes an answer. To say you saw something which was unknown to you, shouldn't necessarily mean it was out of this world. Yet this is the paradox enshrined in this re-tokened language. We don't know. How often do we allow ourselves room for the thought. So often language allow us to claim knowledge of the unknown. This or that question is ...

... the consent of their first wife has angered women and the country's top justice official, who say it would undermine women's rights and could be a government attempt to more deeply enshrine its strict Islamic interpretation into law. Outcry over the bill forced parliament to postpone a vote scheduled for Tuesday so lawmakers could debate it further in a committee. Under Islam, a man can...

... hacker cultures where the Jargon File originated. Raymond has responded by saying that the nature of hacking had changed and the Jargon File should report on hacker culture, and not attempt to enshrine it.[2] More recently, Raymond has been accused of adding terms to the Jargon File that appear to have been used primarily by himself, and of altering the file to reflect his own ...

... addition to the pantheon of religions could be seen to hold a knowledge which would not be enshrined in the older scriptures. Call it a post modern religion befitting the sciences and their controls which are evidenced all around us. A religion of its times, enshrining a knowledge some might prefer remained a mystery, isolated to its age. Religion as power and ...

... work-around. Sadly, there's now a trend denying that any mistakes exist. Compromises once intended to be phased out or better dealt with in the future have simply become enshrined. ANSI actually requires standards to be re-evaluated every 5 years, so that they can fix anything that is recognized as a mistake and incorporate innovations that have come into common use. The Forth ...

... and subsequent work-around. Sadly, there's now a trend denying that any mistakes exist. Compromises once intended to be phased out or better dealt with in the future have simply become enshrined. Oh wow, that seems a bit extreme! As you said, Forth-94 was quite conservative, which is what a standard has to be. Sure, earlier standards made some mistakes when they were innovative ...

... and subsequent work-around. Sadly, there's now a trend denying that any mistakes exist. Compromises once intended to be phased out or better dealt with in the future have simply become enshrined. Apparently these compromises don't cause trouble in actual practice. In the Netherlands it is forbidden to smoke in a cafe. Unless it is a very small cafe. Or unless you call the cafe a...

...as C.M.'s recent interview shows (which BTW got zero comment on c.l.f.) Standards can and do make mistakes. Forth standards in particular have not fared well, alternating between mistake and subsequent work-around. Sadly, there's now a trend denying that any mistakes exist. Compromises once intended to be phased out or better dealt with in the future have simply become enshrined.

... the individual, society and their interaction. The Renaissance Enlightened Man had persisted up until the Industrial Revolution when the romantic vision of noble action began to fade. Humanism, which enshrined the nobility of man, lost validity particularly after the Great War and the Nazi Holocaust. Modernism, exemplified in the literary works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, wrote out...