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From: cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth in print
Summary: Most Title would be Vanity Press Items
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.165806.8841@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:58:06 GMT
References: <2502.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
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In article <2502.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>, ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
> Category 4,  Topic 7
> Message 232       Fri Mar 15, 1991
> GARY-S                       at 21:25 EST
>  
>                             
>  Subject: Potential Forth Books
>  In article: <1991Mar14.194203.5168@cbnewse.att.com>
>                 cwpjr@cbnewse.att.com (clyde.w.jr.phillips) writes:
> 
>  >I have been contemplating co-authoring some practical application
>  >FORTH books. I noticed Phil Koopman post:
>  >-- Would you like to see similar books for other CPUs?
>  >              
>  >     < Many potential titles listed .....>     
>  >        
>  >Thanks, Clyde
>  >P.S. Feedback on these titles is also highly valued.
> 
>       Applause... but who will publish and who will buy them, Clyde ?
>       When even "Thinking Forth" is pulled by the publisher you have to
>       seriously question the marketability of 'Forth in ECHELON'
> 
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Or even as published Notebook/Cookbooks on the subject.
I mean a lot of this would be moot if there were
"application notes" from vendors, right? ( VENDORS: <sarcastic> "RIGHT" )

Clyde 8^)