Peter --- the best way to make the ANS-Forth cult look stupid is to write ANS-Forth code that works --- this is what they hate and fear the most.
My disambiguifiers really do fix the problem in ANS-Forth with FIND and tick being ambiguous.
Juergen Pintaaske has a stake in pretending that ANS-Forth is bug-free, so he responds emotionally as shown above when I fix a bug in ANS-Forth.
Stephen Pelc is at the same level as Juergen Pintaske and responds with an equally emotional attack on me:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.forth/T-yYkpVwYew
Stephen Pelc is mad because he told me that SYNONYM is impossible to write in ANS-Forth, and I wrote it in ANS-Forth (requires disambiguifiers to work).
That thread I mentioned earlier in which Juergen Pintaske said that I deserved a kick in the teeth,
was an attack on me from Alex Wegel because my MACRO: was late-binding.
I had originally written MACRO: in UR/Forth in 1994 and it was early-binding, but when I ported this to ANS-Forth in 2009 it didn't work because
FIND is ambiguous. It worked under SwiftForth but not under gForth, which caused Ron Aaron to say that I don't know ANS-Forth at all (a total incompetent!).
At this time, Anton Ertl invented the disambiguifiers (my contribution was just to think up the cool name: "disambiguifier").
It took me a few years to realize how disambiguifiers fix FIND and tick in ANS-Forth and make impossible code possible. That was when I wrote SYNONYM.
In the thread in which Alex Wegel was attacking my late-binding MACRO: I went ahead and wrote an early-binding MACRO: using the disambiguifiers.
This was when Juergen Pintaske said I deserved a kick in the teeth.
Anyway, my point is that shining a spotlight on the vulgar insults of Stephen Pelc and his sales clown Juergen Pintaske doesn't do much good.
Everybody already knows that they are vulgar and mean --- that is just the ANS-Forth culture --- all of the Forth-200x sycophants are vulgar and mean too.
Writing ANS-Forth code that works hits them where it hurts --- this shines a spotlight on their incompetence --- they can only respond with emotion!
Stephen Pelc wrote an article about quotations in which he bragged about not knowing what quotations are for (quoted Elizabeth Rather on this),
and in which he promoted the fake-quotations that fail to access the parent function's local variables and which are essentially worthless.
This article was copied pretty much word-for-word and became Alex McDonald's RfD for making fake-quotations part of the Forth-200x Standard.
Once again, I succeeded at doing what Stephen Pelc said was impossible.
I implemented rquotations under VFX and SwiftForth that do have access to the parent function's local variables despite the HOF having locals of its own.
This totally discredits the Forth-200x committee! I expect rquotations to be the death-blow to Forth-200x!
Stephen Pelc, Anton Ertl and Bernd Paysan look utterly stupid promoting the fake-quotations after I solved the problem by implementing rquotations.
There are myriad other examples in which I wrote ANS-Forth code that worked and the cult responded with vulgar and mean attacks on me.
For example, Alex McDonald spent four years claiming that I don't know that it is possible to have an array of pointers.
This was because my SORT works on arrays with any size of record. It is not limited to cell-sized records. It supports arrays of pointers though.
That was pretty humorous --- I spent 4 hours writing SORT, and he spent 4 years attacking me for it, saying that I don't know about arrays of pointers.
Note that Alex McDonald doesn't know how to write a SORT function. He was promoting Wil Baden's SORT that is limited to cell-sized records.
Most likely, he thinks that an array of pointers is advanced programming, which is why he assumes (or at least, hopes) that I don't know about this.
It is not advanced programming though --- I knew this in the early 1980s when I was in high-school --- Alex McDonald's "advanced" is pretty novice level.
There are many many other examples of me writing ANS-Forth code that works and getting attacked for it.
They can't write code --- they just attack me for writing code --- they think they are beating me strong, but they are making fools of themselves in public.
Working Forth code that works is what will kill Forth-200x!
I think the failure of Forth-200x is inevitable --- the trick will be to kill Forth-200x but not let Forth-200x pull Forth down with it.
My goal is to save Forth --- Forth-200x deserves to be discredited, because it is crap --- but Forth needs to be saved.
P.S. Another tactic the cult relies on is to hijack a thread criticizing ANS-Forth or Forth-200x with some weird off-topic nonsense.
Here we have Rick C and Gerry Jackson blathering about usenet signatures.
To use a football analogy, they are blocking for their ball-carrier Juergen Pintaske, to prevent you from tackling him. Juergen is going for a touchdown!