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lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> writes:
> I devoured 'Starting Forth' and I had real fun. Later on came
> 'Thinking Forth', but it was a great disappointment to me since I
> didn't like to be told how to think or not. I guess that I never could
> have become a professional Forth programmer.

That's interesting.  I thought Starting Forth was an ok beginners'
tutorial but Thinking Forth was a really interesting book about
programming methodology and even philosophy.  It predated the so-called
agile movement by decades.