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From: jwoehr@isis.cs.du.edu (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Publications?
Summary: Cater to Forth? More like "Grudgingly Tolerate" :-)
Keywords: esp,ddj,tcj
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Date: 11 May 91 03:48:11 GMT
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In article <1950@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM> gaulandm@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM (Mike Gauland) writes:
>
>What publications, besides _Forth Dimensions_, cater to the Forth community?
>I've seen bits on Forth here and there, but are there any other periodicals
>devoted to the language?

	Journal of Forth Application and Research.

	Also, frequent Forthing found in "Embedded Systems Programming"
and "The Computer Journal" magazines.

	Dr. Dobb's Journal has frequently been hospitable to Forth. I'll have
an article in the June issue.

>
>On another note, anyone have any idea just how many Forth programmers are
>out there?
>

	I've heard the estimate of 200,000. My WAG is that there are about
20,000 Forth professionals.

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