Re: GS Forth II

[rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com (Richard Der)]

bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters) wrote:
>I think you are talking about GS16Forth. If so, it is great.
 
Yes, that is it.
 
>It is excellant. You will need one or more books on Forth:
>
>Title:  Starting Forth
>Author: Leo Brodie
>Pub:    Prentice-Hall Software Series
>ISBN:   0-13-843075-9
>
>Title:  Thinking Forth
>Author: Leo Brodie
>Pub:    Prentice-Hall Software Series
>ISBN:   0-13-917568-7
 
Great, I will look for the books.
 
>Hope this helps,
 
It does, thanks. Beginners will love this info. It is hard to justify
an expensive compiler if one dosn't know the language yet, but because
GS16Forth is freeware, I will give it a shot.
 
 
johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling) wrote:
>I haven't used Forth much lately, but I did a lot of it a few
>years back. Forth is a very good language for beginners (and I know
>some of you C and Pascal diehards will disagree with that).  It is
>easy to learn, with the interactive nature that BASIC has.
 
Question: would knowledge of BASIC stunt learning Forth? It has been
said that BASIC programmers have a hard time moving on to Pascal
sometimes.


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