Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 02:57:57 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:27374 On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:26:23 -0500, wrote: > The late Julian Noble was a very fine mind, and his article on > implementing FSMs in Forth was a gem. "Finite State Machines in Forth" by J.V. Noble http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/fsm.html "A Beginner's Guide to Forth" by J.V. Noble http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/primer.htm "Programs, Programs, Programs" by J.V. Noble http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/programs.htm "Developing Assembly Language Programs in Forth" by J.V. Noble http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/asmcise2.pdf > Please, everyone in this group, organize an effort to locate a copy > of his book, Scientific Forth, and do to it what was previously done > to Thinking Forth; ie, digitize it and put it online, lest it be lost > to obscurity. I'd suspect his family or book publisher is likely to own copyrights. Some years ago, he posted a link to his webpages on FSMs in Forth to comp.lang.c. I have no idea why... Anyway, I posted a C port of one of his Forth FSMs, which is here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.c/WjqgM4p0LrU/XA-YJvYsqS8J Rod Pemberton