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Date: 16 Aug 90 03:29:26 GMT
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 Date: 08-13-90 (06:40)              Number: 3644 (Echo)
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 From: GORDON GANDERTON                Read: (N/A)
 Subj: C OR FORTH                    Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Feeling the pressure, I decided to get back into learning C using
 TurboC, which I must admit has a very attractive environment. While
 doing the exercises form Turbo C Programming for the IBM, it occurred
 to me that I could do them a lot easier using Forth and its a lot more
 fun. I got stuck on chapter 3, ex3 at end of chapter though and was
 about to return to C but then wondered if anyone has the answer in
 Forth to this one:
 3. Write a program that repeatedly calculates how many chars separate
 two letters typed in by the user, until terminated with ctlC. For
 instance there are 2 characters ('b' and 'c') between 'a' and 'd'. Take
 advantage of the fact that the arithmetic operators work on character
 variables just as well as they do on numbers. Rgds.
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