hea6@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Rodney T. Hearne) (03/10/88)
A few years ago my uncle, a main-frame expert, gave me FORTH level
one to encourage me to being programming on our new Mac 128K.
Well, time passed and I left the 128K mac at home with my family
when I went to college. I then bought a Mac Plus and was disappointed
to find that my FORTH level one (from Creative Solutions) did not
run on my Plus. I learned that Creative Solutions has a program
FORTH PLUS, and was curious if any Mac Programmers had any comments
concerning this program. I never had a change to become fully
proficient on FORTH level one, but what I did use of it was interesting.
Still being a beginner, would FORTH PLUS be too difficult for me
to deal with or is it fairly open to the clueless?
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MacForth for some time now has had a different kernel and no longer has Levels I, II and III nor does it charge you for distributing programs you have written. Call them to ask about an upgrade. Although MacForth has some nice features (an MPW-shell like editor, for one) also look into Mach2, which supports _all_ Mac system calls and is subroutine threaded (thus is real fast). See MacTutor for address and monthly column on Forth programming. MacTutor PO Box 400 Placentia, CA 92670 (714) 630-3730 for info "Only a satisfied customer..." -- Nicholas Spies ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa Center for Design of Educational Computing Carnegie Mellon University