beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)
Mathew Kanner
mat at cnd.mcgill.ca
Sat Jan 10 11:35:56 PST 2004
[I've moved this to chat as i figure it's the best forum]
On Jan 09, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
[ snip stuff I not responding to ]
> forth looks like it's an interesting (love/hate kind of thing) language,
> and I'd like to get my hands on it. Can anyone recommend good (or just
> any, really) introductory material? google quickly degrades into misses,
> and just a few even of those.
>
I really like:
"Thinking Forth, A Language and Philosophy for Solving
Problems", Leon Brodie (ISBN 0-13-917568-7).
This book has had the most profound effect on me of any
programming document I've ever read (well, other than the turbo pascal
4 manuals). Although it's dated (hand drawn illustrations, dot-matrix
font for source code), it's funny and relevant.
I guess I'm so fond of it because it was the first text I'd
seen that taught generally how to attack software engineering
problems, the importance of elegance, how/when/where to generalize.
etc, etc, etc.
It should be taught in every high school.
--Mat
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