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From: ma168a@sdcc7.UUCP (John Wavrik)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Forth standards
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 15:51:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 15:51:59 1986
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A good source for information about Forth is:
		  MOUNTAIN VIEW PRESS
		  PO BOX 4656
		  MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA  94040

They sell copies of the complete versions of the FORTH-79 and FORTH-83
standards for $15 each.
  
Good references for Forth programming practices are the books
Starting-FORTH and Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie (also available from
MVP). Techniques for foward references, co-routines, recursion, etc.
are covered.

Anyone can make his private version of Forth operate in any way he wishes.
The standards specify the actions of words and programming practices that
guarantee portability.

There are so many competently implemented versions of Forth on the market
at such low cost that it is hard to understand why someone inexperienced
with the language would want to write an implementation from scratch!