thomson@utah-cs.UUCP (Richard A Thomson) (03/08/88)
Amiga FORTH Newsletter Volume 1 Number 1 March 8th, 1988 Contents: Re: Amiga FORTH Newsletter V1, #1 Re: Standard Prelude Re: Object Oriented FORTH Extension ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 10:58:42 EST From: mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark C. Carroll <mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu>) Subject: Re: Amiga Forth Newsletter V1, #1 I like the idea of the standard prelude. I'd like to suggest that you post Mr. Tracys standard prelude. If we're going to try to decide whether to use that or create our own, it would help for us all to see exactly what it includes. There is going to be a problem in portability with structures. JForth uses a slightly different syntax for structures. ( I'm not exactly sure what it is. SOmeone sent me source code for WarpText in Jforth, and it was not the simple offset notation that MF uses.) And finally, I have a proposal: I'd like to see a group of us try to come up with a standard Object Oriented facility in Forth. It shouldn't be too hard to create one, and I think the benefits would be enourmous. The one thing Amiga lacks is any sort of object oriented programming language. And with the totally open format of a Forth interpreter, I think forth is a good language to build one in. <MC> ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 7 Mar 88 08:49:23 CST From: Glen Overby <ncoverby@NDSUVAX.BITNET> Subject: Re: Amiga Forth Newsletter V1, #1 In article <5323@utah-cs.UUCP> you write: >This first one's a little long, but I thought I would at least post it so >that the other people in comp.lang.forth can see what we're doing. I won't >post the following issues unless there is sufficient response from the net >to warrant doing so. After all, I could always add people to the mailing >list. > Rich Thomson I am interested in seeing future issues of your newsletter, although I do not own an amiga. I say go ahead and post them to the net! Glen Overby Bitnet: ncoverby@ndsuvax UUCP: {uunet, ihnp4!umn-cs}!ndsuvax!ncoverby ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: Monday, March 7th, 1988 From: Richard A Thomson (thomson@cs.utah.edu) Subject: Re: Standard Prelude Mark Carroll mentions Martin Tracy's standard prelude [see above] in his comments about the newsletter. I am trying to get a copy of this prelude to make a version specifically for Multi-Forth, so that MF programs could be more portable. (There's a copy of FORTH for the Suns I'd like to play with) I will post a copy of this prelude when I get one. If anybody has a copy, please e-mail it to me and I will re-distribute it to the list. Rich Thomson ______________________________________________________________________________ Date: Monday, March 7th, 1988 From: Richard A Thomson (thomson@cs.utah.edu) Subject: Re: Object Oriented FORTH Extension Perhaps a good place to start would be the book _Object Oriented Programming in FORTH_ by Dick Pountain of Byte fame. I don't have a copy, but it is apparently one of the prime references for OO extensions to FORTH. I've heard tale that JForth has OO extensions. Phil Burk, care to comment on JForth's implementation? Rich Thomson ______________________________________________________________________________