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Forth & small systems report: potential unrealized: the MicroMED advisor

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This column begins a multipart series describing various projects in which I was involved, which for one reason or another, did not live up to their full potential. They are reviewed here in the hope that these exemplars may help others to avoid the traps and pitfalls which have ensnared the author during his career. Most are "small systems", or subsystems of other projects; many involve the Forth programming language.

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    cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
    ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 41, Issue 12
    December 2006
    43 pages
    ISSN:0362-1340
    EISSN:1558-1160
    DOI:10.1145/1229493
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