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+==== Discussion ====
+=== If ever there was an application "made for Forth", surely it would be astroimaging  ===
+  * Chuck Moore invented Forth at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
+  * FORTH Inc, and Leon Wagner are actively controlling radio dishes with Forth
+  * There is a fertile professional-amateur collaboration in algorithms and techniques - very Forth!
+  * Interesting technical aspects span from simple motor controllers through to sophisticated image manipulation algorithms
+  * Forth-quality engineering "under the hood" would be a great practical benefit
+=== Yet the case for Forth is perhaps not compelling ===
+  * Hard to find any recent history of Forth being used in this field as a starting point
+  * Access to all essential libraries will have to be "plumbed in" from nothing, even SQLite
+  * Floating point, infix, mathematical algorithms need to be implemented "from the textbook"
+=== What is the right approach for including Forth? ===
+  * A longer, bottom-up project to develop a stack of astronomy-related data structures and libraries?
+  * Development of Forth as a general inter-application "glue language", rather like REXX or Amiga AREXX?
+    * Wolf Wejgaard's [[https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/TclForth | TclForth ]]
+    * Why do you need TclForth if Tcl already does everything you need?
+  * A niche tool for some local, small-scale problem solving (perhaps custom user hardware)?
+=== What do you think? ===
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+<- [[tcl | The Tcl surprise]]
+<= [[start | Can I do this in Forth?]]