[comp.lang.forth] new edition of brodie

tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) (11/11/86)

>  The 'standard' beginners' book is Leo Brodie's _Starting_Forth_.
>It's well written and easy to follow.  Another book that I've found good
>is _Mastering_Forth_, by Anita Anderson and Martin Tracy.  It's almost as
>clear as _Starting_Forth_, and it uses the Forth-83 standard, which is nice.
>(_Starting_Forth_ uses the F-79 standard, since it was written before '83.)
>

    There is a new, 2nd edition of Brodie's "Starting Forth".
    I bought it last Saturday, November 8th at the Harvard Coop
    in Cambridge.  It is the first book I have seen with a 1987 
    copyright.

    The 2nd edition uses Forth-83 and now includes a real index.
    Other minor changes.

/tom