Group: comp.lang.forth · Group Profile
Author: Stephen PelcStephen Pelc Date: Sep 6, 2008 10:06
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:36:48 -0400, "Robert Miller"
compmore.net> wrote:
>While I doubt either Forth Inc. or MPE have particularly large advertising
>budgets, they are the players who should be servicing the embedded systems
>market. Unfortunately, it seems that they are up against a mindset that
>there is only C and assembler.
...
>The remaining questions
>seem to relate either to difficulties in getting their chosen C compiler to
>work for them or being unable to debug their latest chunk of C code. It
>should be possible to attract the later group to Forth if only for the
>interactive aspect.
You're actually asking a series of questions here, including
1) How do you make Forth socially acceptable?
2) How do you get people to try Forth?
The audience to address in the first is not necessarly the
audience to address in the second. The first question is
actually the easier - people are much more accepting of
other languages now than they were a few years ago, possibly
because the web world uses lots of them.
My advice is not to claim too much and to recognise that C
is the lingua franca of programming languages just as broken
English is now the lingua franca of spoken languages.
Also make sure that you have numbers and theory to back up
your assertions.
Stephen
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