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From: janney@unm-cvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: looking for *the* book on Forth
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Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 16:36:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  3 16:36:20 1984
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I'm interested in learning about Forth (I currently know nothing about
it) and I am looking for a good book to learn it from.  What I would
like to find is a book that is to Forth as Kernighan & Ritchie is to C,
or as Jensen & Wirth is to Pascal: something compact and definitive.
Anything over 200 pages is probably too long.  I don't care if it
doesn't have lots of cartoons or if it doesn't tell me how to use the
editor on a Sinclair ZX80; in fact, I rather hope it doesn't.  I do
want a complete and accurate description of the language, written by
someone who understands it thoroughly.

Does such a book exist, or a reasonable approximation to it?  Please respond
by mail: if there is enough interest I will summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance

Jim Janney
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