Oren wrote...

"There were alot of things thru the history, which were better than the standard, and did not succeed, I donnow why. Good example is MP3 Which has 1:10 compression."

...I thought MP3 was doing very well... at least as far as usage is concerned :)

"and the VQF (microsoft) which has 1:20 compression."

...That could be coz nothing Microsoft gives is free. Most users can live with something they can get for free (like MP3) even if it's performance doesnt compare to something they have to pay for.

Maybe its just 'coz C is the well-known standard, and most people alreay know it. The mentality could be that "if I can do it in one language, why learn another?" So engineers will only learn something new like Forth, only if they absolutely have to. Like client requirements maybe....

There have been similar threads on comp.arch.embedded, and I found this post from Elizabeth Rather from Forth inc. talking about where Forth is most used.
http://groups.google.com/groups?

q=Forth+group:comp.arch.embedded.*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3B8AF169.785BFD12%40forth.com&rnum=2

kundi