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From: magik@chinet.UUCP (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: The Flip side of Forth
Message-ID: <392@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 20:52:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 26 20:52:27 1986
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>If you are interested in how Forth works internally, you will need
>something like (I forget the exact title and author) "The System
>Programmers Guide to Fig-Forth".  Most books do not get into the
>Builds-Does constructs either, which leads me to believe that
>most Forth programmes do not use it much.
>
>
>Dan LaLiberte
>liberte@b.cs.uiuc.edu
>liberte@uiuc.csnet
>ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte

Another excellent book is "Threaded Interpretive Languages" by Ting (?)

It talks about how to write your own TIL and just how simple it is to do
from scratch once you understand the pricinples involved.

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Ben Liberman

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