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Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices

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Hugh Aguilar wrote:

> On Nov 5, 12:48 am, "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Benn...@topmail.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> I am certain that I have seen code from Elizabeth on here before. Then I
>> have been on this ng a long time.
> 
> Please provide a link.

As just one would prove your statement wrong, this link should help. It was 
a thread that you also took part in (about arrays).

<https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth/browse_thread/thread/1d235f674d6076e7/ab015f1cd4db415a?hl=en-
GB#ab015f1cd4db415a>
 
> I've never seen any code from E.R. on comp.lang.forth. Her two books
> are also very light on code. Actually, all of the Forth Inc. books are
> light on code --- I've never seen an implementation of FIELD for
> example --- because of this, there are a lot of people in the world
> who will say dismissively, "Forth is just a toy language like QBasic;
> it doesn't support structs, which are the basis of all data
> structures." Trying to tell the person that it is possible for him to
> implement FIELD himself is an uphill battle --- the guy has already
> dismissed Forth and adopted C --- there are a lot of programmers like
> this who spent a few weeks reading "Starting Forth" and learning Forth
> back in the 1980s, and who have never touched Forth since that time.
> The book does have cute cartoons though --- it was just the right
> speed for me when I was 18 and my experience primarily involved line-
> number BASIC, and a smattering of Pascal and 6502 assembly-language
> (if I hadn't already had a Pascal class in H.S. though, I would never
> have thought of structs (records) on my own).

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coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-04 17:57 -0800
  Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-11-05 07:47 +0000
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-05 21:26 -0800
      Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-11-06 19:00 +0000
  Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-06 17:09 -0700
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices jfong <jfong@ms4.hinet.net> - 2012-11-06 17:57 -0800
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-11-07 05:13 -0600
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices awegel@arcor.de (Alex Wegel) - 2012-11-07 16:04 +0100
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Brad Eckert <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-11-07 08:11 -0800
      Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-08 19:12 +1100
  Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Ian Osgood <iano@quirkster.com> - 2012-11-08 07:19 -0800
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-08 17:27 +0000
      Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-08 19:56 -0800
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-09 15:37 +1100
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2012-11-14 10:59 +0000
  Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices jfong <jfong@ms4.hinet.net> - 2012-11-08 17:04 -0800
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-08 20:10 -0800
      Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices "Ed" <invalid@nospam.com> - 2012-11-09 16:17 +1100
        Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-08 23:17 -0800
  Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices arc <arc.deletethis@vorsicht-bissig.de> - 2012-11-11 17:53 +1300
    Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-13 20:29 -0800
      Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices John Rible <google@sandpipers.com> - 2012-11-13 22:39 -0800
        Re: coin changer --- a challenge for novices Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-13 22:54 -0800

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