From: Ferren MacIntyre (Ferren.MacIntyre at domain nuigalway.ie)
Date: Wed 03 Oct 2001 - 13:06:02 IST
Quoth Justin Mason:
>The trick with proprietary software is often spotting the good, small
>companies, and hoping they balance somewhere between going bust, getting
>bought out by Rational, or getting big.
This is exactly why I've always done my serious number crunching (Mie and
Navier-Stokes) in Forth. MacForth is now on its 3rd supplier (CS to Forth
Inc to Megawolf), but when pi = 4 popped up as I moved from 366 MHz iBook
to 400 MHz iMac, it was back to its proper value the next day, in a new
version of the kernel.
--Ferren
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