From: buzz_mccool@yahoo.com   
      
   On 3/26/2024 9:38 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   > ... If you design a Forth-like language from scratch that is consistent and   
   > orthogonal, there is a whole bunch more that you have to do.   
      
   Understood.   
      
   I'm also perturbed that even fairly recent gforth releases don't support   
   the h. word at all (see below). So I have to upgrade all my systems to   
   the most recent gforth (WSL seems to have heartburn with some of them so   
   I'll have to work that out), or use hex. and get warning messages on   
   some of them.   
      
   $ gforth   
   Gforth 0.7.9_20220428   
      
   255  ok 1   
   hex. $FF  ok   
      
   255  ok 1   
   h.   
   *the terminal*:9:1: error: Undefined word   
    >>>h.<<<   
   Backtrace:   
   kernel/int.fs:321:10:                    0 $7F96CEE5C430 throw   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)