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Article #287Forth standards
From: John Wavrik
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1986 20:51
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1986 20:51
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A good source for information about Forth is: MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESS PO BOX 4656 MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94040 They sell copies of the complete versions of the FORTH-79 and FORTH-83 standards for $15 each. Good references for Forth programming practices are the books Starting-FORTH and Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie (also available from MVP). Techniques for foward references, co-routines, recursion, etc. are covered. Anyone can make his private version of Forth operate in any way he wishes. The standards specify the actions of words and programming practices that guarantee portability. There are so many competently implemented versions of Forth on the market at such low cost that it is hard to understand why someone inexperienced with the language would want to write an implementation from scratch!
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