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Documents on standards made by an
expert group are usually strictly
copyrighted. To get the official
standard you will need to pay for
the expenses of the long and hard
standardization process.

Many standard groups publish their
drafts for public review before
pushing them through the various
levels of standard branding, e.g.
those from ANSI ETSI IEEE or ISO.

Subdirectories may contain these
draft documents or an overview
excerpt of a forth-related stand-
ardization document. Keep in mind
that these are not the official
and final documents - only the
real documents are authoritive.

The ones here are however close
enough to provide a database of
factual information related to
discussions about standards on
news:comp.lang.forth - they can
be link-referenced in messages
there. Note that all of standard-
ization groups on forth-like
languages are generally known to
be represented on c.l.f. with
members closely reading that NG.
It is a common mistake to believe
that ANS Forth is a definition of Forth.
It is not. But what is it about?
If you know what is Forth, and have a program,
ANS Forth tells you what assumptions need
documenting and what assumptions need not.
Defining what Foerth is, as well as guidelines
for implementors, are outside of the
scope of the standard.

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