Date   : Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:38:15 +0100
From   : profpep@... (Mike Pepper)
Subject: Forth manuals

> > There's four copies of it available for less than a tenner through
> > Amazon UK Marketplace:
> >
> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0907876064/
>
> Cheers (and also to Rob who e-mailed me off list) - I could swear I
> looked there a couple of weeks ago and none were available. Bit pricey
> but for a rare-ish item I will stick an order in.
>
> Still interested in any other BBC Forth material anyone may have lying
> around (or pointers to online documentation I may have overlooked).
>
I have a copy, which I would lend you to scan, (no time here, and it is a
long book).

The two classic texts on FORTH in general are: Leo Brodie's 'Starting FORTH'
and 'Thinking FORTH'. Both available as free downloads.

 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2316

Is there a language interest developing? FORTH on the BBC was great, but
needed a, but needed a lot of work to make stand-alone code. My favourite
high level one, after the mighty BBC BASIC itself, was BCPL, which did have
a stand alone generator, and was like getting hold of a real program
development system for the first time. Amazing thing - you could halt a
running program with <escape>, look over it's variables and traces, and
continue. I so missed that after using HP BASIC on an HP 85.

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