Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.theremailer.net!frell.theremailer.net!anonymous From: Fritz Wuehler Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the remailer administrator at . Identifying the real sender is technically impossible. Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Which standard? References: Message-ID: <79b8fe46efe676fa560fece0f9043f68@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Precedence: anon Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:42:22 +0200 Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@frell.theremailer.net Organization: Frell Anonymous Remailer Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:10478 "Elizabeth D. Rather" wrote: > What I'm trying to say is that a standard prescribes the semantics of > words, but doesn't include much information as to how they're used, how > you go about building a useful program, what "good style" consists of, > etc. The combination of a standard, a tutorial, and good existing code > examples are all important. It sounds as though you know that, but not > everyone does. Oh right. I have no illusions that I can *learn* Forth just from the standard! I just wanted to get started by seeing if there was consensus that any extant standard is good in the view of the majority of the community. Without that, regardless of tutorials, it would be very difficult to even consider implementing something generically useful without a specification. > > I'll need something to test the core words against, right now your system is > > a good choice because I don't have to register for anything. I would like > > to try Steven's products, I'm sure they're excellent, but at this point I > > don't care to make my name known. Thanks for making your trial version > > available! Your documentation is superb. The clarity and English are > > outstanding, and that is notable given the wretched state of technical and > > prose writing these days. If I go further I plan on purchasing all your > > books. I found a copy of Steven's book as well but I haven't had time to > > look at it. Thanks to you both for your support of the community. > > > > Thank you! No, thank YOU! :-)