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Post by retrobits on Apr 16, 2009 17:06:59 GMT -5
Hi there,
On Monday, April 20, I'll be publishing show 120, "The FORTH Programming Language".
If anyone has any FORTH products you particularly like, or experiences to share, shoot 'em my way.
Chat with you soon,
- Earl
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Post by schism on Apr 16, 2009 20:05:35 GMT -5
Cool I allways wanted to learn forth, make sure you put some noob stuff in there,
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Post by thurstan on Apr 17, 2009 13:21:20 GMT -5
i joined a computer software club and in the introductory offer there was the package called FORTH, I thought it was some weird game. Imagine how disapointed I was when I loaded it up to find it was a programming language!!
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Post by robertb on Apr 17, 2009 19:55:27 GMT -5
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Post by gmoon on Apr 20, 2009 9:56:11 GMT -5
Just wanted to mention the great FORTH books by Leo Brodie: Starting FORTH and Thinking FORTH. I've never read a better introduction to any programming language than Starting FORTH. There's an online version www.forth.com/starting-forth/ available now. Take care--there's also an older, non-sanctioned version that doesn't include Brodie's original drawings. Those drawing are an integral part of the book. Personally, I happen to enjoy stack-based languages like FORTH and Postscript. When I comes to features like user-defined keywords and recompiling the language to suit your needs, FORTH was way ahead of it's time...
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Post by retrobits on Apr 20, 2009 14:48:15 GMT -5
I am partway through Starting Forth, and want to read Thinking Forth afterwards (it is online as well). I'm reading a sanctioned version with the illustrations.
The history of Forth and the philosophy behind it are fascinating. I won't be able to do it justice in the podcast, but I'll try to hit the high points.
- Earl
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Post by aragon on Apr 22, 2009 4:18:42 GMT -5
Nice show! Looking forward to part 2 now... In the meantime, maybe I can check out Forth on my Amiga? Found this link to JForth: www.softsynth.com/jforth/ JForth is a subroutine threaded Forth for the Amiga Computer. It was written by Mike Haas, Phil Burk, Brian Donovan and Jim King. It features:
* fast native code generation, * easy access to Amiga libraries and structures, * CLONE - for standalone executables, * ODE - object oriented development environment, * source level debugger, * floating point support, * ARexx support, * IFF, ANIM support, * Motorola style 68000 assembler, * complete documentation in RTF format including tutorials.
JForth was sold commercially by Delta Research from 1986 to 1993. It is now available as Freeware!
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Post by gomem on Apr 23, 2009 14:00:30 GMT -5
Earl I enjoyed your last Retrobits podcast about the FORTH language. Have you or anyone else ever heard of the Jupiter Ace? A little known British microcomputer which came out in the early 80s. This machine is interesting because it used FORTH in ROM instead of the usual BASIC as its programming language. It was designed by a couple of ex-Sinclair engineers who'd previously worked on the ZX80 and ZX81. The company 'Jupiter Cantab' only sold a few thousand of these machines before going bust. Here is a couple of links about the interesting Jupiter Ace computer including emulators: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Acewww.jupiter-ace.co.uk/Was wondering if you was going to mention this computer on the next episode of Retrobits FORTH language part 2?
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