rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck) (07/22/87)
I listen to this group also. Sometimes, either here or in another group, you find some real gems. I wanted to contribute one that I believe might help others as well. That is a recommendation of Leo Brodie's book - Thinking Forth. I realize it is no longer new, but those who haven't looked into it at all should probably go to a computer bookstore and at least flip through it. Though the title is FORTH and the orientation is FORTH throughout, I found that it made me think about a lot of different things in different ways. Maybe it'll make me a slightly better C programmer, or Lisp or Assembler or Pascal... If you know and regularly use languages other than FORTH, the concepts in the Brodie book are applicable to other problems. I once was gung ho about FORTH, and though some of that has faded, (because I discovered C, data structures, pointers, dynamic memory allocation, multitasking, ... in short - the Amiga) I found myself using C more often than anything else. Yes, folks will tell me that FORTH has all of that, and can be had on the Amiga as well (in two flavors, MultiForth and JFORTH), but for now I prefer C. But though I don't use FORTH much, I do have to strongly recommend the Thinking Forth book as something that can benefit everyone, not only FORTH folks. Rob Peck ...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap