beastie boot menu, 4th (forth)

[Patrick Gardella]

I go through the love/"why am I spending my time learning an obscure
language" kind of relationship. :)

If you want to buy books, good ones are:
http://www.forth.com/Content/Handbook/Handbook.html
http://www.forth.com/Content/fat/fat.html
You can get PDF versions if you download the trial version of Swift Forth.

Or you can pick up a few on Amazon.  Starting Forth is the classic intro
(by Leo Brodie)  Thinking Forth is the follow on.

Patrick


> Here's the question perhaps more appropriate for hackers@:
>
> I looked into ripping the ascii-art out, but am quite scared. However,
> 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.