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- From: sourada@iastate.edu (Steven D Ourada)
- Subject: Re: FORTH-83 for Atari 8-bit; anyone interested?
- Message-ID: <sourada.725846389@vincent1.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec28.124555.2212@netcom.com> <1992Dec29.143533.1824@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Dec30.035608.22678@mtu.edu> <31DEC199207582838@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:59:49 GMT
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- In <31DEC199207582838@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov> lanmaint@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Yoest) writes:
-
- >As I recall, Forth was developed in the 70's by an astronomer. The
- >name Brodie keeps coming to mind, but that could be a book author.(I'll
- >look up the name if anyone really wants to know)
-
- Charles Moore is the inventor. Leo Brodie wrote a few good books on it,
- including "Starting Forth" which is a good one for beginners, and "Thinking
- Forth" which is pretty good for those planning to use Forth for lots of
- development.
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-
- Just a sort of side note: Personally, I don't think postfix notation is any
- great barrier to learning Forth. One thing better about postfix (compared to
- infix) is that it is very orthogonal: every command has the same syntax, which
- is just a number of arguments on the stack. (Forth does violate this when
- dealing with a few things like strings, though).
-
-
- Later,
- Steven Ourada
-
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