Re: [Fwd: Anyone programming Windows apps in Forth?]

While I am delighted there are people working outside the more or less
standard commercial models, I have to make a living at this. So I need to
follow two rules:

1. Avoid PD and/or beta releases. I'll be spending about a year working on
this next project, and I simply cannot afford to use a Forth that is not up
to commercial standards. There may be others, but the only two Forth
providers I know for sure are producing commercial grade Forths are Forth,
Inc. and MPE.

2. As you point out, avoid overly restricted licenses. Most all licenses
are restricted in one way or another, but the ones that have a political
agenda are pretty difficult to negotiate, and rarely worth the bother.

John

Algorithmic Arts
http://algoart.com

>Bernard Payson, who programs with Gforth, has similar toolkit for Rapid GUI
>Development calledMinos: http://www.jwdt.com/~paysan/bigforth.html#MINOS but
>stresses,
>
>"MINOS is available under the GPL, not the LGPL. I want to stress that this
>means you cannot develop applications with it that are not either under the
>GPL, or distributed seperately as sources, just as with other GPLed
>libraries (for example, readline). For people wanting to develop
>applications with it that are under different licencing conditions, a
>commercial licence is available at request so that MINOS can be a choice for
>proprietary systems, too. I'll certainly give major contributors a fair
>share."
>
>So it is prohibitive. Yet, it is an example of a Rapid Gui Development
>toolkit. I think it could be
>fairly simple to program since it would be a toolkit but would be time
>consuming. But afterwards,
>it would be easy to customize and re-use code.

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Received on Fri Jan 11 2002 - 02:29:06 PST