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Re: The Fourth Forth eBook in our little series - Programming Forth - Stephen Pelc

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: The Fourth Forth eBook in our little series - Programming Forth - Stephen Pelc
Date 2016-08-03 14:15 -0400
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On 8/3/2016 2:09 PM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
>
>
> On 8/3/2016 12:41 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 12:42:36 AM UTC-7, Cecil - k5nwa wrote:
>>> On 8/3/2016 2:12 AM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 5:56:17 PM UTC-7, Cecil - k5nwa wrote:
>>>>> I have an extensive library on electronics, programming, and ham
>>>>> radio,
>>>>> but the last few years I buy a Kindle version when possible. When not
>>>>> available I buy a used hardbound copy if possible. I bought six books
>>>>> today, five were programming books in Kindle versions, one was a old
>>>>> hardbound book on Forth for $3.99 including shipping.
>>>>
>>>> The only hard-bound book on Forth that I'm aware of was: "Threaded
>>>> Interpretive Languages" (R.G.Loeliger). Is this the one that you
>>>> mean? It is a pretty good book --- I read that when I was 18 years
>>>> old and still in high-school --- then I lent it to a guy out at the
>>>> college and he moved away without returning it.
>>>>
>>> I bought today a hard cover book on Forth, below that one are several
>>> other Hardcover Forth books;
>>>
>>>   "Forth: The New Model : A Programmer's Handbook/Book and Disk", can't
>>> tell you anything about it, it's a pig in a poke, it was cheap and never
>>> heard of it so I took a chance and bought it.
>>>
>>> "Embedded Controller Forth For The 8051 Family" is also a hardback book
>>> but it is outrageously priced.
>>>
>>> "Forth Tools and Applications" is another hardback book on Forth. $39
>>>
>>> "Forth: The Fourth-Generation Language" $1539.03, insane price.
>>>
>>> "Forth for Professionals: A Practical Programming Language for Research
>>> and Development" $1941.21, these people are insane.
>>>
>>> "FORTH: a Complete Course in the Forth Programming Language", $50
>>> --
>>> Cecil - k5nwa
>>
>> Actually, now that I think about it, there were some other Forth books
>> that made it into hard-cover. I have "Embedded Controller Forth For
>> The 8051 Family" --- that book consists almost entirely of 8051
>> assembly-language source-code with very little text --- I don't know
>> why it was made into a book rather than distributed on disk (who is
>> going to type all of that in?).
>>
>> There is also Dick Pountain's book: "Object Oriented Forth" that was
>> hard-cover and which I also have --- I didn't like his OOP system, but
>> I don't remember why now, as that was 30 years ago when I read his
>> book --- I have a super-simple OOP system in the novice-package that
>> works well for me.
>>
> Found another one;
>
> "FORTH: Applications in Engineering and Industry" $2.63 + shipping, I
> bought it, it was cheap, most likely quite useless.

Back in the day I bought a couple/three Forth books.  They turned out to 
be pretty lame for the most part.  I think the good ones are written by 
the more commercial elements represented here.  They have a strong 
motivation to produce quality training materials.

-- 

Rick C

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