Starting Forth (Prentice-Hall Software Series)
Starting Forth (Prentice-Hall Software Series) by Leo Brodie
English | Jan. 1987 | ISBN: 0138430799 | 166 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | Jan. 1987 | ISBN: 0138430799 | 166 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
For beginners and professionals, this popular and complete introduction to FORTH syntax has been expanded to include the new FORTH-83 Standard. It is suitable for all FORTH-83 Standard systems and is a complete guide to learning FORTH with special footnotes that address FORTH-79, MVP-FORTH and FIG-FORTH versions.
The Forth community can celebrate a significant event with the publication of Starting Forth. A greater effort, talent, and commitment have gone into this book than into any previous introductory manual. I, particularly, am pleased at this evidence of the growing popularity of Forth, the language. I developed Forth over the period of some years as an interface between me and the computers I programmed. The traditional languages were not providing the power, ease, or flexibility that I wanted. I disregarded much conventional wisdom in order to include exactly the capabilities needed by a productive programmer. The most important of these is the ability to add whatever capabilities later become necessary.