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Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: for us beginners?  Help
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Date: 22 Jul 90 23:47:31 GMT
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Category 2,  Topic 5
Message 151       Fri Jul 20, 1990
FORBES [Bob Harrison]        at 19:59 PDT
 
I just started in Forth myself, 72 sleepless hours ago :-)   I downloaded the
F-PC package first and was very suprised, in a good way, at all it could do. 
However, I finally had to give up on it for a while because it was just too
big for me to follow.

I ended downloading F83 also.  This was more my size to start with. I don't
feel so overwhelmed with everything.  I was even able to track down a bug that
caused an erroneous ID tag to be applied to blocks when the NEW editor was
invoked.  It only took a hour or so and I learned a lot of Forth reading the
source for that.  If I'd had to do the same in F-PC, I'd still be wading
through code.  The upshot is that I recompiled the kernel with the fix and
everything worked perfect (well, almost, there are few other things I'm going
to change as soon as I know how :-)

Forth is simply the most fun I've had with a programming language, ever.

Bob



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