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Subject: Forth in print
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Date: 19 Jan 90 23:18:55 GMT
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 Date: 01-17-90 (17:34)              Number: 2795
   To: STEVE PALINCSAR               Refer#: NONE
 From: MICHAEL HAM                     Read: NO
 Subj: NEW FORTH BOOK                Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 I aimed the book directly at total novices who have no experience in any
 programming context.  The book will be packaged with a Forth, however,
 so the reader will have access to a Forth.  I believe that programming
 can be learned (really) only by doing.  So the reader is led through
 various development efforts, from the very small to the relatively
 ambitious, with guided tours of bugs and revisions along the way.

 I don't think, however, that it would be useful in doing Crosstalk
 scripts.  They would have to learn the commands available there, and the
 book takes them carefully through structured experiences that would have
 little direct application to Crosstalk.

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