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- Subject: Forth FAQ: Forth In Print. (l/m 02.Mar.93)
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- Date: 23 Jun 93 11:11:19 GMT
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- [Note: there are many other entries that could be added here. I don't
- have the time to type in a bibliography. Please send me materials that
- you consider worthy of mention. I would also like to be able to include
- your comments about why a particular selection is worthy. Remember:
- Some of the readers of this message do not know the "big names", either
- as regards book titles or authors.
- -dwp]
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- Where can I find "Threaded Interpreted Languages"?
-
- General consensus seems to be that this book is out of print, but
- sometimes available from booksellers or used book places.
-
- G.LEFAVE [Gene] (on GEnie) provides this bibliographic info:
-
- Threaded Interpretive Languages
- R.G. Loeliger
-
- BYTE BOOKS, 1981, ISBN:0-07-038360-X
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-
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- Write Your Own Programming Language Using C++
-
- Norman E. Smith, CDP -- smithn@orvb.saic.com
- provides this info:
-
- "Write Your Own Programming Language Using C++", by Norman Smith,
- ISBN 1-55622-264-5,
- published by Wordware Publishing, Plano, Texas,
- 1-800-229-4949, $15.
-
- This book presents a minimal Forth implementation called Until, for
- UNconventional Threaded Interpretive Language. Until is designed
- to be used as a macro language embedded in other applications. It
- can both call and be called by other C functions.
-
-
-
-
- Scientific FORTH: a modern language for scientific computing
-
- Julian V. Noble -- jvn@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU
- provides this info:
-
- The book "Scientific FORTH: a modern language for scientific
- computing" by Julian V. Noble (ISBN 0-9632775-0-2) is
- available from FIG in the USA, as well as directly from the
- publisher,
-
- Mechum Banks Publishing
- P.O. Box 335
- Ivy, Virginia 22945
- USA
-
- for $49.95 + $3.00 s/h (continental USA).
-
- In Europe it may be purchased from
-
- MicroProcessor Engineering, Ltd
- 133 Hill Lane
- Shirley, Southampton SO1 5AF
- United Kingdom
- fax 44 703 339691
-
- While not intended for the Forth novice, Scientific FORTH
- contains a good many serious examples of Forth programming
- style, useful programs, as well as innovations intended to
- simplify number crunching in Forth. It can now be found in
- the libraries of several major universities (Yale, U. of Chi-
- cago, Rockefeller U., e.g.) and government and industrial
- laboratories ( Fermilab, Motorola, e.g.). It comes with a
- disk containing all the pro- grams discussed in the book. An
- update file has recently been posted to GEnie/FIG.
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