At 08:30 AM 11/9/96 -0800, Dale Thorn wrote: ...

FORTH has fallen out of favor for most PC users of the mid 1990's, but then again, so have computer languages as a whole, since few persons write software today as compared to the early 1980's. ... I was tinkering around in Basic back then, I wasn't writing much of my own, but I did know a few commands. I remember when using "canned" software had a certain stigma to it, like saying "you are not a true computer afficinado, you don't even type in your own code." I also remember that my dad taught computer programming out of the back of magazines, ones with names like TI/99er, Home Computing (is it still out there?), and K-Power. Heck, even 3-2-1 Contact, the PBS based magazine had a source code section for a while. I'm afraid I don't remember Forth, though I have heard of it, about as much as my friends have heard of PGP.