Where is Forth-83 on simtel20?

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2 total messages Started by anderson Sun, 27 May 1984 03:57

#92

Author: anderson
Date: Sun, 27 May 1984 03:57

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There was a recent article that refered to an implementation of
Forth-83 residing on simtel20.  I can ftp there no problem, but
I don't know the path name for the file.  Does anyone have this,
and more generally does anyone have or know how to get a list of
the publicly-accessible directories there?

Thanks --  David Anderson (uwvax!anderson)

Re: Where is Forth-83 on simtel20?

#93

Author: wmb
Date: Tue, 29 May 1984 05:28

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Forth-83 is on Simtel-20 in  MICRO:<CPM.FORTH-83>

I don't know how to get an up-to-date list of accessible
stuff; I have saved some of the Simtel-20 lists that have been
posted to the USENET in the past, but they aren't complete, as
witnessed by the lack of mention of the FORTH-83 stuff (which I
know about from a specific announcement about Forth-83).

BTW, a new release of Forth-83 is out as of last month.  There
are a few changes from the release on Simtel-20, but nothing
earth-shaking.  (I have this from the "horse's mouth".  The author
of Forth-83 is a friend of mine).

Forth-83 seems to be catching on.  There is a book out now that
describes it - Forth Tools, by Anita Anderson and Martin Tracy.

A few months ago, I converted all of my Forth code from Forth-79
to Forth-83.  It was really easy; almost all of the necessary changes
involved subtracting 1 from an argument to PICK, looking for
ticks's ( ' ) and either deleting a following "CFA" or adding ">BODY"
as the situation demanded, and changing "NOT" to "0=".  I don't claim
that this is all that has to change in every situation, but these three
changes take care of the lion's share of the differences.

I am very happy with F83.  I found the 79-standard to be quite annoying
when I attempted to do real work with it, but I'm having a much better
time with the 83-standard.

Name-droppingly yours,
Mitch Bradley

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