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From: dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Forth in print
Message-ID: <314.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 90 03:10:04 GMT
Organization: Haphazard.
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 Date: 01-20-90 (15:27)              Number: 2807 (Echo)
   To: MICHAEL HAM                   Refer#: NONE
 From: DAVID FOX                       Read: NO
 Subj: TOC OF NEW FORTH BOOK         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 It looks to me that the table of contents describe a book that IMHO 
 looks like it has a unique approach to programming (and Forth).  Many 
 programming books (even the extant Forth books) attempt to teach 
 programming through examples that aren't really real-world applications.
 Very few of the programs I wrote for college programming courses were 
 useful applications that I would use after I wrote them.  The majority 
 were read-a-file and produce a report, with the report getting more 
 difficult to produce as the course progressed.

 You seem to do it differently.  Even though I have just seen the table 
 of contents of your book in the last message, the programs shown in the 
 book (such as the name-address book program used for showing file 


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