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Subject: Who's here
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Date: 13 May 91 11:56:23 GMT
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Category 1,  Topic 8
Message 55        Fri May 10, 1991
P.BROWN37                    at 00:21 EDT
 
I have just completed reading all the messages in this topic. 54 messages
since sept '87. Of these, several replies and repeat customers (including the
notable emittings of Mr. Furman). Who's here? Approximately 45 souls, unless
some have since passed on.

So, with a sense of reverence and awe from this rarified congregation, I make
my humble introduction. My name is Peter Brown. I live in Toronto. I am 43
years old. I am not a computer professional (or any other type for that
matter). My interest is hobbyist, dilettente. I've owned an XT for a couple of
years. Had no prior computer experience. I've mucked about with GwBasic.
Glanced at C and assembly language.

I've had a modem since only earlier this year. I happened on Forth while
shopping for a public domain compiler in the CompuServe IBM Programming Forum.
What I got there was called Full-Segment Forth. Seems like it was a beta
version of F-PC, hardly any documentation. So I checked-out the CompuServe
Forth Forum, hoping to get a little insight. That's where I picked up F-PC,
mainly because it was so big and free. The signposts, including some advice on
CompuServe, have since guided me here. The only literature that I have thus
far on Forth is the book Mastering Forth. But an error on page 69 has left me
disenchanted. Expect to pick up the oft-cited Starting Forth when I bump into
it.

With Forth, however, I'm still very much enchanted. I love the syntax. The
very language itself. Much more elegant than others. And the postfix
arithmetic is a dream. The whole thing stimulates the imagination. Am also
enchanted with this roundtable, though I've only just begun to explore the
categories and haven't really looked at the libraries yet. Several of the
topics promise to hold great interest, immediately and in the future.

Peter Brown

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